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The Edwardians: Biography of the Edwardian Age - Hardcover

Hattersley, Roy

 
9780316725378: The Edwardians: Biography of the Edwardian Age
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0316725374 ISBN 13: 9780316725378
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in domestic service. The habits and sports of the aristocracy were an everyday indulgence. But it was an age of invention as well as tradition. It saw the first widespread use of the motor car, the first aeroplane and the first use of the telegraph. It was also a time of vastly improved education and the public appetite for authors such as Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and E. M. Forster was increased by greater literacy. There were signs too, of the corner history was soon to turn, with the problematic Boer War hinting at a new British weakness overseas and the drive for Votes for Women and Home Rule for Ireland pushing the boundaries of the social and political landscape. In this major work of history, Roy Hattersley has been given exclusive access to many new documents to produce this magisterial new appraisal of a legendary age.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Roy Hattersley is a politician-turned-writer. He was elected to Parliament in 1964, and served in each of Harold Wilson's governments as well as Jim Callaghan's Cabinet before becoming deputy leader of the Labour Party in 1983. He is the author of fourteen books.

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Verlag
Little, Brown Book Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0316725374
ISBN 13 
9780316725378
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
528
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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