When London was capital of America (Record no. 86456)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 02277nam a2200409 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.813/042109033 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Flavell, Julie. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | When London was capital of America |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Haven [Conn.] : |
| Name of publisher | Yale University Press, |
| Year of publication | c2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 305 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., maps. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Maps on lining papers. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | An American city in Europe -- The London world of Henry Laurens -- Upstairs, downstairs: master and slave in Georgian London -- English lessons in London: a tale of two teenagers -- Young and rich in fleet street: the decadents abroad -- A Long Island Yankee in the city -- "The handsome Englishman" -- London's American landscape -- Franklin and son in London -- 'The most cautious man I have ever seen': Ben Franklin's London career. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London and in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the city. This book recreates the city's hey day as the centre of an empire that encompassed North America and the West Indies. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Americans |
| Topical Term | Americans |
| Topical Term | Visitors, Foreign |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10579324 |
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