Peter Ackroyd

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Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of WaterlooPaperback, 22 December 2020

Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo
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Part of Series
History of England
Part of Series
History of England, 4
Print Length
416 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's Griffin
Date Published
22 Dec 2020
ISBN-10
1250765978
ISBN-13
9781250765970

Description

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 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.

Ackroyd is the author of the first, second, and third volumes of his History of England, Foundation, Tudors, and Rebellion.

Product Details

Author:
Peter Ackroyd
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
22 December 2020
Dimensions:
19.3 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm
ISBN-10:
1250765978
ISBN-13:
9781250765970
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
416
Weight:
385.55 gm

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