Dominion: The History Of England Volume V Peter Ackroyd Macmillan Αγγλικά Βιβλία General Issues

\ Ackroyd Makes History Accessible To The Layman\ - Ian Thomson Independentthe Penultimate Volume Of Peter Ackroyd’s Masterful England Series Dominion Begins In 1815 As National Glory Following Battle Waterloo Gives Way Post-War Depression Spanning Last Years Regency Death Queen Victoria January 1901 It Takes Us From Accession Profligate George Iv Whose Government Was Steered By Lord Liverpool Who Firmly Set Against Reform Reign His Brother William Sailor King\ Saw Modernization Political System And Abolition Slavery But Aged Only Eighteen That Sparked An Era Enormous Innovation Technological Progress – Steam Railways First Telegram Swept Nation Finest Inventions Were Showcased At Great Exhibition 1851 Emergence Middle Classes Changed Shape Society Scientific Advances Old Pieties Church Spread Secular Ideas Across Though Intense Industrialization Brought Boom Times For Factory Owners Working Still Subjected Poor Housing Long Hours Dire Poverty A Time Flowering Literature Too Georgian Gave Readers Could Delight Not Work Byron Shelley Wordsworth Also Nineteenth-Century Novelists: Brontë Sisters Eliot Mrs Gaskell Thackeray Course Dickens Has Become Synonymous With Victorian Nor Expansionism Confined Britain Alone End Victoria’s Empress British Empire Dominated Much Globe Shows This Richly Populated Vividly Told Account Britannia Really Did Seem Rule Waves Σελίδες: 416 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0911 Διαστάσεις: 15 2X15 2Cm