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SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018

'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the definitive history, and will remain so for generations' A.N. Wilson


To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. There were revolutions in transport, communication, work; cities grew vast; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one.

In his dazzling new book David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of the British nineteenth century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice. This was a country which saw itself at the summit of the world. And yet it was a society also convulsed by doubt, fear and introspection. Victorious Century reframes a time at once strangely familiar and yet wholly unlike our own.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018

'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the definitive history, and will remain so for generations' A.N. Wilson


To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. There were revolutions in transport, communication, work; cities grew vast; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one.

In his dazzling new book David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of the British nineteenth century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice. This was a country which saw itself at the summit of the world. And yet it was a society also convulsed by doubt, fear and introspection. Victorious Century reframes a time at once strangely familiar and yet wholly unlike our own.

Über den Autor
Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, and was the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from 2014 to 2026. He is the author of many books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Ornamentalism, Class in Britain and The Undivided Past, as well as of biographies of G.M Trevelyan, Andrew W. Mellon, Margaret Thatcher, King George V and Queen Elizabeth II. He is the general editor of two major series: The Penguin History of Britain and The Penguin History of Europe. Victorious Century, 1800-1906 is his volume in the former series.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Penguin History of Britain
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780141019130
ISBN-10: 0141019131
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cannadine, David
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin History of Britain
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 195 x 128 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: David Cannadine
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.09.2018
Gewicht: 0,454 kg
Artikel-ID: 113781235

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