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In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon´s Wars, 1793–1815
Jenny Uglow
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Description for In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon´s Wars, 1793–1815
Paperback. As the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? This book reveals the colourful and turbulent everyday life of Georgian Britain through the diaries, letters and records of farmers, bankers, aristocrats and mill-workers. It tells the story of how people lived in one of the most momentous periods of history. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 275 x 40. Weight in Grams: 546.
Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize
As the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? Award-winning social historian Jenny Uglow reveals the colourful and turbulent everyday life of Georgian Britain through the diaries, letters and records of farmers, bankers, aristocrats and mill-workers. Here, lost voices of ordinary people are combined with those of figures we know, from Austen and Byron to Turner and Constable. In These Times movingly tells the story of how people really lived in one of the most momentous and exciting periods in history.
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571269532
SKU
V9780571269532
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Ref
99-99
About Jenny Uglow
Jenny Uglow grew up in Cumbria and now works in publishing. Her books include prize-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. The Lunar Men, published in 2002, was described by Richard Holmes as 'an extraordinarily gripping account', while Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, won the National Arts Writers Award for 2007 and A Gambling Man: Charles II ... Read more
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