Peter Ackroyd

Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

The History of England Volume IV

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory.

In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution 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.

Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange, the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation and parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities and duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished and the English novel was born. It was an era in which coffee houses and playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely and in which shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in our towns and villages. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509811489
• Artikelnr.: 45699181

Autorenporträt

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers, Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

Ackroyd is a fascinating mix of a 19th-century narrative historian and modern social analyst. Elements of thisbook seem very old-fashioned and formal - in a good way. Yet the author eschews the detached third person preferred by stuffy professionals, favouring instead a more intimate "you" that brings the reader into the dark alleys of industrial towns to sniff the urine, vomit and suppurating sores of industrial England. Those perfect sentences are scattered throughout. Gerard DeGroot The Times