Main entry:

Flavell, Julie.

Title & Author:

When London was capital of America / Julie Flavell.

Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2010.

Description:

xii, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Maps on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-290) and index.
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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9780300137392 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0300137397 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780300178135
0300178131

Subject:

Americans England London History 18th century.
Americans England London Biography.
Visitors, Foreign England London.
Visiteurs étrangers Angleterre Londres.
Americans.
Intellectual life.
Visitors, Foreign.
Amerikaner
Amerikanen.
Amerikaner historia i utlandet 1700-talet.
Intellektuellt liv historia England London 1700-talet.
London (England) Intellectual life 18th century.
Londres (Angleterre) Vie intellectuelle 18e siècle.
England London.
London
Londen.
London kultur och samhällsliv 1700-talet.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270227
Call No.: BIB 202917
Status: Available