The Age Of Decadence: Britain 1880 To 1914 Simon Heffer Windmill Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

‘A Riveting Account Of The Pre-First World War Years Age Decadence Is An Enormously Impressive And Enjoyable Read ’ Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times‘a Magnificent A Less Than Epoch Jonathan Meades Literary Review Folk-Memory Britain In Before Great Powerful Contented Orderly Thriving Country She Commanded Vast Empire Bestrode International Commerce Her Citizens Were Living Longer Profiting From Civil Liberties Their Grandparents Only Dreamt Enjoying Expanding Range Comforts Pastimes Mood Pride Self-Confidence Familiar Elgar’s Pomp Circumstance Marches Newsreels George V’s Coronation London’s Edwardian Palaces Yet Things Very Different Below Surface Simon Heffer Exposes Contradictions Late-Victorian He Explains How Despite Nation’s Massive Power Mismanaged Against Boers South Africa Created Profound Doubts About Imperial Destiny Shows Attempts To Secure Vital Social Reforms Prompted Twentieth Century’s Gravest Constitutional Crisis Coincided With Worst Industrial Unrest British History Describes Politicians Who Conceded Vote Millions More Men Disregarded Women So Utterly That Female Suffragists’ Public Protest Bordered On Terrorism Depicts Ruling Class Fell Prey Degeneracy Scandal Analyses National Psyche Embraced Motor-Car Sensationalist Press Science Fiction H G Wells But Also Arts Crafts William Morris Nostalgia E Housman Concludes Summer 1914 Threatened Existence United Kingdom – Looming Ireland Lights Up Era Through Vivid Pen-Portraits Day Including Gladstone Parnell Asquith Churchill Mrs Pankhurst Beatrice Webb Baden-Powell Wilde Shaw Creating Richly Detailed Panorama Both Accident Arrogance Was Forced Face Potentially Fatal Challenges Devastating Critique Prewar Disturbingly Relevant Which We Live Gerard Degroot Times‘you Won’t Put It Down Really Rana Mitter Bbc Radio 3 Free Thinking Σελίδες: 928 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm