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What it was really like to live in the age of Austen, Byron and Waterloo?

Covering the years from the French Revolution to the death of George IV, this immersive guide asks what it actually felt like to travel through Regency Britain. What would you wear? What would you eat? How quickly could you travel? Where would you stay, and what happened if you became ill or fell foul of the law?

Behind the thrills and frills of the Regency age lay rapid urbanisation, industrialisation, population growth and political upheaval .New roads, canals and the early railways changed travel; consumer culture reshaped homes and clothing; policing and medicine transformed public life.

Allowing us a close look at street level, Ian Mortimer combines the practical details of everyday life with the larger social changes driving them. The result is a Regency Britain that is exuberant, unequal, inventive and already much closer to the modern world than its costumes suggest.

'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The Times

'Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his specialty' Daily Mail

What it was really like to live in the age of Austen, Byron and Waterloo?

Covering the years from the French Revolution to the death of George IV, this immersive guide asks what it actually felt like to travel through Regency Britain. What would you wear? What would you eat? How quickly could you travel? Where would you stay, and what happened if you became ill or fell foul of the law?

Behind the thrills and frills of the Regency age lay rapid urbanisation, industrialisation, population growth and political upheaval .New roads, canals and the early railways changed travel; consumer culture reshaped homes and clothing; policing and medicine transformed public life.

Allowing us a close look at street level, Ian Mortimer combines the practical details of everyday life with the larger social changes driving them. The result is a Regency Britain that is exuberant, unequal, inventive and already much closer to the modern world than its costumes suggest.

'Excellent... Mortimer's erudition is formidable' The Times

'Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his specialty' Daily Mail

Über den Autor
Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times-bestselling author of the Time Traveller's Guides to Medieval England, Elizabethan England, Restoration Britain and Regency Britain, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize in 2004 and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Neuzeit
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XIV
418 S.
16 farbige Bildtaf.
ISBN-13: 9781784705961
ISBN-10: 1784705969
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 729661
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Mortimer, Ian
Hersteller: Random House UK Ltd
Vintage
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 194 x 124 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Ian Mortimer
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,326 kg
Artikel-ID: 119666615

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