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by Jerry White (Author)
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  • Paperback: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (3 Jan 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0712600302
  • ISBN-13: 978-0712600309
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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213 of 219 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An astounding history: a pleasure to read., 18 Jan 2007
By K. S. Williams (Midlands, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God (Hardcover)
What a book! I don't read much history, so I was not thrilled when a friend gave me London in the Nineteenth Century as a present. I confess I had never heard of Jerry White. I dipped into it for form's sake one Friday evening, and ended up locking myself away for the rest of the weekend until I had read all 600-odd pages. Generally, reading history feels like work: not in this case. It is written with an obvious passion for its subject, and crammed with nuggets you want to read aloud to someone. It's completely free of the pompousness I associate with academic historians, and I developed a real liking for the author. He doesn't impose his intellect and learning on you, but shares it with you, so that you can't help catching his enthusiasm. It seems fluent and effortless, despite the compendious knowledge and research that went into it. The sources (all meticulously referenced) are innumerable - it's when you dip into the index and footnotes that you really begin to realise what a feat of learning this is. I can't begin to pick out favourite bits: there are too many. But where I really got hooked was in the second part, "People". At that point, it came fully alive for me. The book has a democratic feel, because so much of the material relates to the common people. Throughout the remaining chapters on "Work", "Culture" (with a fascinating study of shared and private pleasures), and "Law and Order", it read as easily and engagingly as a novel.

As soon as I finished this I had to find myself a copy of the same author's "London in the Twentieth Century" - which, scandalously, is out of print! I eventually tracked it down on the internet, and found to my delight it is every bit as good. I can only hope he will tackle another century or two.
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90 of 93 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars As thorough as a text book - as entertaining as a novel, 26 Feb 2007
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The breadth of this book would be astonishing enough if it wasn't also for it's coherent structure and - most importantly - lively writing. Mr White knows his subject, but he doesn't lose his thread beneath a mountain of statistics or (Peter Ackroyd take note) lose himself in flights of fancy. He brilliantly portrays, above all, the human drama which makes this such an exciting - and unique - period of history.
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating - History made real, 13 Mar 2008
This book is both informative and entertaining. What I find particularly fascinating are the various similarities to own period. Problems such as overcrowding, street crime - even the fact that statistically at least, crime figures fell during the course of the century, but people "felt" surrounded by it - seems to be remarkably familiar. I for one have to confess to a much more "cosy" image of the Victorian period (probably fuelled by too many middle-class novels and an "Upstairs Downstairs"-type of preconception. So it was most educational to be told how things really were.
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