In these times : living in Britain through Napoleon's wars, 1793-1815
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Nonfiction (Adult)
941.073 UGLOW
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941.073 UGLOW
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820.
Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1789-1820.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- Sources.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
War and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
War and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1789-1820.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- Sources.
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
War and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
War and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 740 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"Originally published in 2014 by Faber and Faber Limited, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 657-708) and index.
Description
"A people's history of life in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars"--,Provided by publisher.
Description
"A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian. We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars--but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers--how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century"--,Provided by publisher.