Peter Ackroyd

Dominion (eBook, ePUB)

The History of England Volume V

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Uncover the intricate past of England in Peter Ackroyd's acclaimed volume, Dominion, a crucial part of his sweeping History of England series. This charismatic narrative opens with the aftermath of Waterloo in 1815 and concludes with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901.

Ackroyd masterfully recounts the era of George IV, whose rule witnessed staunch resistance to reform, and that of 'Sailor King' William IV, an epoch which marked significant modernisation and the abolition of slavery.

When eighteen-year-old Queen Victoria's took the throne, a period of astonishing technological breakthroughs and innovation - such as steam railways and the telegraph. Yet, beneath the progress, Ackroyd unflinchingly reveals the harsh reality of the ordinary working classes mired in poverty whilst the industrial revolution flourishes around them.

It was a time that saw a flowering of great literature, too. As the Georgian era gave way to that of Victoria, readers could delight not only in the work of Byron, Shelley and Wordsworth but also the great nineteenth-century novelists: the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Mrs Gaskell, Thackeray, and, of course, Dickens, whose work has become synonymous with Victorian England.

Finally, Ackroyd illustrates the British Empire's global expansion, reflecting Britannia's iron rule over the waves, the shockwaves of which are still felt today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509881314
• Artikelnr.: 53793667

Autorenporträt

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography and The History of England series. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Malign spirits
2. The Thing
3. Eternity work
4. A queasy world
5. The door of change
6. False hope
7. The Inspector
8. Steam and speed
9. The pig is killed
10. Young hopefulness
11. City lights
12. Charitable government
13. The salamander
14. A most gorgeous sight
15. Blood lust
16. A dark world
17. Quite the fashion
18. The game cock
19. The unexpected revolution
20. She cannot go on
21. The Tichborne affair
22. The Angel
23. The Empress
24. This Depression
25. Frightful news
26. Daddy-Long-Legs
27. Lost illusions
28. The terrible childbed
Bibliography
Index