Express Levering London, 1900. The Imperial Metropolis. – Jonathan Schneer

London in 1900 was the greatest city on earth-the capital of an empire on which the sun never set. This book is the first to examine this powerful and influential city at the turn of the century and to investigate its relationship with Britain’s far-flung empire. Jonathan Schneer focuses on the diverse, contentious, contradictory personalities of London and its inhabitants, showing the many ways that the empire impinged on them. He describes how a range of citizens-from architects to zoologists, from financ…