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In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 17931815 Main [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 752 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 190x129x30 mm, kaal: 607 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2015
  • Kirjastus: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN-10: 0571269532
  • ISBN-13: 9780571269532
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 752 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 190x129x30 mm, kaal: 607 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jun-2015
  • Kirjastus: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN-10: 0571269532
  • ISBN-13: 9780571269532
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.

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A beautifully observed history of the home front during the Napoleonic Wars from one of Britain's greatest historians.
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1 Who tells the news?
1(12)
I STIRRING, 1789--1792
2 Down with Tom Paine!
13(14)
II ARMING, 1793--1796
3 The universal pant for glory
27(12)
4 Flanders and Toulon
39(7)
5 Scarlet, shoes and guns
46(10)
6 British tars
56(11)
7 Trials and tribulations
67(11)
8 Warp and weft
78(10)
9 Money, city and country
88(13)
10 `Are we forgotten?'
101(8)
11 High life
109(11)
12 Four farmers
120(10)
13 Portsmouth deliveries
130(9)
14 Bread
139(12)
15 East and west
151(12)
III WATCHING, 1797--1801
16 Invasions, spies and poets
163(9)
17 Mutinies and militia
172(10)
18 Cash in hand
182(9)
19 At sea and on land
191(9)
20 The powerhouse
200(10)
21 `Check proud invasion's boast'
210(14)
22 Ireland
224(9)
23 The Nile and beyond
233(10)
24 `The distressedness of the times'
243(11)
25 God on our side
254(14)
26 `Good men should now close ranks'
268(8)
27 Denmark, Egypt, Boulogne -- peace
276(13)
IV PAUSING, 1801--1803
28 France
289(8)
29 New voices
297(12)
30 `Always capable of doing mischief'
309(9)
31 Albion
318(17)
V SAILING, 1803--1808
32 Into war again
335(11)
33 `Fine strapping fellows'
346(9)
34 Press gangs and fencibles
355(10)
35 Panic and propaganda
365(13)
36 `Every farthing I can get'
378(6)
37 The business of defence
384(11)
38 Trafalgar
395(12)
39 All the talents
407(13)
40 Private lives
420(10)
41 Abolition and after
430(8)
42 Danes and Turks
438(6)
43 Orders in council
444(11)
44 Land
455(14)
VI FIGHTING, 1809--1815
45 `Caesar is everywhere'
469(12)
46 Scandals, Flanders and fevers
481(9)
47 Going to the show
490(9)
48 Burdett and press freedom
499(6)
49 `Brookes's and Buonaparte', Cintra and Troy
505(8)
50 Storms of trade
513(11)
51 The coming of the sheep
524(11)
52 Sieges and prisoners
535(10)
53 Luddites and protests
545(9)
54 Prince, Perceval, Portland
554(12)
55 Three fronts
566(9)
56 Sailors
575(7)
57 Swagger and civilisation
582(13)
58 `We are to have our rejoicings'
595(20)
VII ENDINGS, 1815 and beyond
59 To Waterloo and St Helena
615(9)
60 Afterwards
624(19)
Principal events of the wars 643(10)
Acknowledgements 653(2)
Sources and abbreviations 655(2)
Select Bibliography 657(8)
Notes 665(44)
List of illustrations 709(4)
Index 713
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 and the Restoration was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize. She lives in Canterbury.