Neighbours and Rivals

Auteur

Laurent Turcot is a professor of history at l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, and specializes in the 16th to the 19th century, and in urban culture and leisure. Jonathan Conlin, a professor of modern history at the University of Southampton, specializes in modern British cultural history from the 18th century to the present, with a focus on urban history. His previous books include The Nation’s Mantelpiece (Pallas Athene), Evolution and the Victorians (Bloomsbury) and Civilisation (BFI). He has just completed histories of the National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum, as well as an acclaimed biography of Calouste Gulbenkian.

Texte du rabat

Great French journalist Louis-Sébastien Mercier's descriptions of an optimistic, utopian 18th-century London. First translation in English by Laurent Turcot and Jonathan Conlin. Contemporary illustrations in colour.