Revolution : the history of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250003645
- ISBN: 1250003644
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Physical Description:
ix, 403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First published in Great Britain by Macmillan."--Title page verso. The author plans 6 volumes, under the common title The history of England. Revolution is volume 4. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-384) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | What do you think of predestination now? -- A bull or a bear? -- The idol of the age -- Hay day -- The prose of gold -- Waiting for the day -- The great Scriblerus -- The Germans are coming! -- Bubbles in the air -- The invisible hand -- Consuming passions -- The What D-Ye Call It? -- The dead ear -- Mother Geneva -- The pack of cards -- What shall I do? -- Do or die -- The violists -- A call for liberty -- Here we go again! -- The broad bottom -- The magical machines -- Having a tea party -- The schoolboy -- The steam machines -- On a darkling plain -- Fire and moonlight -- The red bonnet -- The mad kings -- The beast and the whore -- A Romantic tale -- Pleasures of peace. |
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Subject: | Great Britain History Revolution of 1688 Influence Great Britain History Revolution of 1688 Great Britain History 1714-1837 Great Britain History 1660-1714 |
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- Baker & Taylor
The award-winning novelist, broadcaster, biographer and historian behindThames: Sacred River offers the fourth volume in his sweeping history of England, covering the events from William of Orangeâs accession to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. - Baker & Taylor
Chronicles the history of England, from the accession of William of Orange and the Battle of the Boyne to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. - Baker & Taylor
"In Revolution, Peter 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 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"-- - McMillan Palgrave
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 with a famous victory.
In Revolution, Peter 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 wasâagainâat 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 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.
Ackroyd is the author of the first, second, and third volumes of his history of England, Foundation, Tudors, and Rebellion.