In these times : living in Britain through Napoleon's wars, 1793-1815 /

"A people's history of life in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars."--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Uglow, Jennifer S. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Great Britain > Social life and customs > 18th century. Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century. Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Social aspects > Great Britain. Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 > Social aspects > Great Britain > Sources. War and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century. War and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Great Britain > History > George III, 1760-1820. Great Britain > History, Military > 1789-1820. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. HISTORY / Social History. Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) Europe. 1789 - 1815
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Table of Contents:

1. Who tells the news?
I. STIRRING, 1789-1792
2. Down with Tom Paine!
II. ARMING, 1793-1796
The universal pant for glory
Flanders and Toulon
5. Scarlet, shoes and guns
6. British tars
7. Trials and tribulations
8. Warp and weft
9. Money, city and country
10. "Are we forgotten?"
11. High life
12. Four farmers
13. Portsmouth deliveries
14. Bread
15. East and west
III. WATCHING, 1797-1801
16. Invasions, spies and poets
17. Mutinies and militia
18. Cash in hand
19. At sea and on land
20. The powerhouse
21. "Check proud Invasion's boast"
22. Ireland
23. The Nile and beyond
24. "The distressedness of the times"
25. God on our side
26. "Good men should now close ranks"
27. Denmark, Egypt, Boulogne...peace
IV. PAUSING, 1801-1803
28. France
29. New voices
30. "Always capable of doing mischief"
31. Albion
V. SAILING, 1803-1808
32. Into war again
33. "Fine strapping fellows"
34. Press gangs and fencibles
35. Panic and propaganda
36. "Every farthing I can get"
37. The business of defence
38. Trafalgar
39. All the Talents
40. Private lives
41. Abolition and after
42. Danes and Turks
43. Orders in Council
44. Land
VI. FIGHTING, 1809-1815
45. "Caesar is everywhere"
46. Scandals, Flanders and fevers
47. Going to the show
48. Burdett and press freedom
49. "Brookes's and Buonaparte," Cintra and Troy
50. Storms of trade
51. The coming of the sheep
52. Sieges and prisoners
53. Luddites and protests
54. Prince, Perceval, Portland
55. Three fronts
56. Sailors
57. Swagger and civilisation
58. "We are to have our rejoicings"
VII. ENDINGS, 1815 and beyond
59. To Waterloo and St. Helena
60. Afterwards
Principal events of the wars.