Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.
Revolution
The History of England Volume IV
Taschenbuch von Peter Ackroyd
Sprache: Englisch

24,55 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen

Kategorien:
Beschreibung

Revolution continues Peter Ackroyd's enthralling retelling of England's history. It takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution in 1688 to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was - again - at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.

Late Stuart and Georgian England saw the creation of the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange. It was the era in which the Church of England was fully established and parliament became the sovereign body of the nation, rather than the monarch. It was an age of coffee houses and Gin Lane, and of newspapers and novels. But it was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly and irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies and farmland to one of soot and steel and coal.

'Beautifully written . . . fluent, intelligent and informative' Spectator

'Coherent and subtle . . . delivered with a pleasing lightness of touch' BBC History Magazine

'Sublime . . . chronicles in grim detail a time of cruel magnificence' The Times

Revolution continues Peter Ackroyd's enthralling retelling of England's history. It takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution in 1688 to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was - again - at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.

Late Stuart and Georgian England saw the creation of the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange. It was the era in which the Church of England was fully established and parliament became the sovereign body of the nation, rather than the monarch. It was an age of coffee houses and Gin Lane, and of newspapers and novels. But it was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly and irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies and farmland to one of soot and steel and coal.

'Beautifully written . . . fluent, intelligent and informative' Spectator

'Coherent and subtle . . . delivered with a pleasing lightness of touch' BBC History Magazine

'Sublime . . . chronicles in grim detail a time of cruel magnificence' The Times

Über den Autor
Peter Ackroyd
Zusammenfassung
The fourth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's History of England series.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Section - i: List of illustrations Chapter - 1: What do you think of predestination now? Chapter - 2: A bull or a bear? Chapter - 3: The idol of the age Chapter - 4: Hay day Chapter - 5: The prose of gold Chapter - 6: Waiting for the day Chapter - 7: The great Scriblerus Chapter - 8: The Germans are coming! Chapter - 9: Bubbles in the air Chapter - 10: The invisible hand Chapter - 11: Consuming passions Chapter - 12: The What D'Ye Call It? Chapter - 13: The dead ear Chapter - 14: Mother Geneva Chapter - 15: The pack of cards Chapter - 16: What shall I do? Chapter - 17: Do or die Chapter - 18: The violists Chapter - 19: A call for liberty Chapter - 20: Here we are again! Chapter - 21: The broad bottom Chapter - 22: The magical machines Chapter - 23: Having a tea party Chapter - 24: The schoolboy Chapter - 25: The steam machines Chapter - 26: On a darkling plain Chapter - 27: Fire and moonlight Chapter - 28: The red bonnet Chapter - 29: The mad kings Chapter - 30: The beast and the whore Chapter - 31: A Romantic tale Chapter - 32: Pleasures of peace Section - ii: Further reading Index - iii: Index
Details
Empfohlen (bis): 99
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Neuzeit
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 403 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509811472
ISBN-10: 1509811478
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ackroyd, Peter
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Maße: 198 x 128 x 45 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Ackroyd
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.09.2017
Gewicht: 0,327 kg
Artikel-ID: 109603740
Über den Autor
Peter Ackroyd
Zusammenfassung
The fourth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's History of England series.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Section - i: List of illustrations Chapter - 1: What do you think of predestination now? Chapter - 2: A bull or a bear? Chapter - 3: The idol of the age Chapter - 4: Hay day Chapter - 5: The prose of gold Chapter - 6: Waiting for the day Chapter - 7: The great Scriblerus Chapter - 8: The Germans are coming! Chapter - 9: Bubbles in the air Chapter - 10: The invisible hand Chapter - 11: Consuming passions Chapter - 12: The What D'Ye Call It? Chapter - 13: The dead ear Chapter - 14: Mother Geneva Chapter - 15: The pack of cards Chapter - 16: What shall I do? Chapter - 17: Do or die Chapter - 18: The violists Chapter - 19: A call for liberty Chapter - 20: Here we are again! Chapter - 21: The broad bottom Chapter - 22: The magical machines Chapter - 23: Having a tea party Chapter - 24: The schoolboy Chapter - 25: The steam machines Chapter - 26: On a darkling plain Chapter - 27: Fire and moonlight Chapter - 28: The red bonnet Chapter - 29: The mad kings Chapter - 30: The beast and the whore Chapter - 31: A Romantic tale Chapter - 32: Pleasures of peace Section - ii: Further reading Index - iii: Index
Details
Empfohlen (bis): 99
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Neuzeit
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 403 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509811472
ISBN-10: 1509811478
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ackroyd, Peter
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Maße: 198 x 128 x 45 mm
Von/Mit: Peter Ackroyd
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.09.2017
Gewicht: 0,327 kg
Artikel-ID: 109603740
Warnhinweis

Ähnliche Produkte

Ähnliche Produkte