When London was capital of America

By Julie Flavell

Subjects: Biography, Intellektuellt liv, Americans, great britain, Intellectual life, Kultur och samhällsliv, United states, history, colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, London (england), intellectual life, Foreign Visitors, Great britain, civilization, Vie intellectuelle, New York Times reviewed, Visitors, foreign, Americans, Historia, History, Visiteurs étrangers, Amerikanen, Amerikaner, London (england), history

Description: 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.