Descripción
Sumario: | Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III. Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state, and was also a revolutionary era in English letters. It was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly and irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies and farmland to one of soot and steel and coal
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Notas: | Los libros de The history of England son : Foundation, Tudors: the History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, Civil War, Revolution: the History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo, Dominion: the history of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, Innovation |
Descripción Física: | IX, 403 páginas, [16] páginas de láminas : ilustraciones (blanco y negro) ; 25 cm |
Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 373-384) e índice |
ISBN: | 9781250003645 |