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The Savage Storm: Britain on the Brink in the Age of Napoleon
David Andress
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Description for The Savage Storm: Britain on the Brink in the Age of Napoleon
Hardback. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 38. Weight in Grams: 830.
Britain's defeat of Napoleon is one the great accomplishments in our history. And yet it was by no means certain that Britain itself would survive the revolutionary fervour of the age, let alone emerge victorious from such a vast conflict. From the late 1790s, the country was stricken by naval mutinies, rebellion in Ireland, and riots born of hunger, poverty and grinding injustice. As the new century opened, with republican graffiti on the walls of the cities, and revolutionary secret societies reportedly widespread, King George III only narrowly escaped assassination. Jacobin forces seemed to threaten a dissolution of the social ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408701928
SKU
V9781408701928
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99-10
About David Andress
David Andress is Professor of Modern History at the University of Portsmouth, where he has taught since 1994. He is the author of a number of acclaimed studies of the French Revolution and its international context, including The French Revolution and the People (2004), The Terror (2005), and 1789 (2008). As well as broadening his writing interests to embrace the ... Read more
Reviews for The Savage Storm: Britain on the Brink in the Age of Napoleon
David Andress writes well, charts the British experience of the struggle against Napoleon in a manner that is as thorough as it is enthusiastic, approaches his subject from a refreshing perspective and fills a serious gap in the historiography . . . The Savage Storm is a book that . . . should be read by all those interested in ... Read more