London A Cultural History

London's influence reaches across the globe. As a port, capital, imperial center, and wartime bastion, it has played an unparalleled part in history. Its contribution to music, fashion, and taste knows no boundaries. As the home of printing, publishing, and broadcasting in English, Europe's largest city has been instrumental in spreading language, literature, and laws across the Anglophone world. Yet London is also where more than three hundred other languages are spoken, and a quarter of the population was born abroad.Tames, Richard is the author of 'London A Cultural History', published 2006 under ISBN 9780195309546 and ISBN 0195309545.