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Mapping the Metropolis - Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London. Edited by Paul Griffiths and Mark S. R. Jenner. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+284. $74.95 (cloth); $32.00 (paper). - Material London, ca. 1600. Edited by Lena Cowen Orlin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. x+393. $65.00 (cloth); $26.50 (paper). - London in the 1690s: A Social Atlas. By Craig Spence. London: Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2000. Pp. xii+200. £19.95 (cloth).

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Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London. Edited by Paul Griffiths and Mark S. R. Jenner. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+284. $74.95 (cloth); $32.00 (paper).
Material London, ca. 1600. Edited by Lena Cowen Orlin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. x+393. $65.00 (cloth); $26.50 (paper).
London in the 1690s: A Social Atlas. By Craig Spence. London: Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 2000. Pp. xii+200. £19.95 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Miles Ogborn
Miles Ogborn
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Queen Mary, University of London
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 119 - 126
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1 This contrast is drawn in de Certeau, Michel, “Walking in the City,” in his The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley, 1984) pp. 91–110Google Scholar. That his paradigmatic vantage point was the 110th floor of the World Trade Center in New York means that we read his essay differently now.

2 On post-metanarrative histories of London, see Hitchcock, Tim, “Roy Porter: Historian of London and Reluctant Postmodernist?” Journal of Urban History 24 (1998): 197–206CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Beier, A. L. and Finlay, Roger, eds., London, 1500–1700: The Making of the Metropolis (London, 1985)Google Scholar.

4 The touchstone here is Fisher, F. J., “The Development of London as a Centre of Conspicuous Consumption in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4th ser., 30 (1948): 37–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 On the importance of these distinctions, see Chartier, Roger, “Popular Appropriation: The Readers and Their Books,” in his Forms and Meanings: Texts, Performances, and Audiences from Codex to Computer (Philadelphia, 1995), pp. 83–97Google Scholar.

6 See, e.g., Gowing, Laura, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London (Oxford, 1996)Google Scholar; Rose, Gillian, Feminism and Geography (Cambridge, 1993)Google Scholar.

7 See, e.g., Wall, Cynthia, The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London (Cambridge, 1999)Google Scholar.