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Revolution : the history of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo /

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 wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ackroyd, Peter, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, [2017]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Series:Oman, Charles William Chadwick, Sir, 1860-1946. History of England ; [4].
Subjects:
Great Britain > History > 1660-1714.
Great Britain > History > 1714-1837.
Great Britain > History > Revolution of 1688.
Great Britain > History > Revolution of 1688 > Influence.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.
HISTORY / Social History.
Table of Contents:
  • What do you think of predestination now?
  • A bull or a bear?
  • The idol of the age
  • Hay day
  • The prose of gold
  • Waiting for the day
  • The great Scriblerus
  • The Germans are coming!
  • Bubbles in the air
  • The invisible hand
  • Consuming passions
  • The What D-Ye Call It?
  • The dead ear
  • Mother Geneva
  • The pack of cards
  • What shall I do?
  • Do or die
  • The violists
  • A call for liberty
  • Here we go again!
  • The broad bottom
  • The magical machines
  • Having a tea party
  • The schoolboy
  • The steam machines
  • On a darkling plain
  • Fire and moonlight
  • The red bonnet
  • The mad kings
  • The beast and the whore
  • A Romantic tale
  • Pleasures of peace.