City of London by David Kynaston

City of London by David Kynaston

The 'Square Mile', London's financial powerhouse, rose to prominence with the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. This title brings this world to life, taking us from the railway boom of the 1830s to the 'Golden Age', when the legendary gold standard reigned supreme. It also includes the stories of four individuals who shaped the City in different ways.

The story is never dry, for Kynaston tells it as human drama.. This is economic history at its most glittering. -- Simon Jenkins * The Times *
A work of breathtaking scope and accomplishment -- D.J. Taylor * Independent *
Magisterial... Kynaston is compulsively readable on all the great City scandals. -- William Keegan * Observer *
No one knows more secrets about the City of London than David Kynaston... about what goes on behind the copper-plate facades of old City firms, or in the boardrooms of the gleaming glasshouses. Kynaston is the historian of the City. -- Peter Oborne * Sunday Express *
Everyone should read David Kynaston's riveting history of the City: a subject too important to be left to the bankers. -- John Lanchester, author of Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No one Can Pay

David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. After graduating from New College Oxford, he studied at the London School of Economics. A professional historian, in addition to the four-volume The City of London, his works include King Labour: A History of the British Working Class, 1850-1914, histories of the Financial Times and the stockbrokers Cazenove & co., and the first two volumes in a planned history of Britain between 1945 and 1979, Austerity Britain, 1945-51 and Family Britain, 1951-57.

David Milner, editor of this volume, was born in 1971. After postgraduate work at university he became an editor for Secker & Warburg at Random House. He now works as a freelance editor for leading publishers, and lives in the Cotswolds with his wife and two children.

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ISBN 13	9780701186531
ISBN 10	0701186534
Title	City of London
Author	David Kynaston
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2011-11-03
Number of pages	704
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