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Product Identifiers

PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-101250003660

ISBN-139781250003669

eBay Product ID (ePID)20050092760

Product Key Features

Book TitleInnovation : the History of England Volume VI

Number of Pages528 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicEurope / Great Britain / 20th Century, Social History, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorPeter Ackroyd

Book SeriesThe History of England Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight26.1 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-017799

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsPraise for Peter Ackroyd: "Marvelously erudite and staggeringly industrious." -- Los Angeles Times "For Ackroyd, the past isn't merely past; it's alive." -- Boston Globe "Ackroyd is a medium through which the obscured voices of the past are channeled." -- Newsday "Through it all, the author is a delightful guide. All chroniclers of popular history should be required to study Ackroyd's writing, his methodology, and the totality of his treatment of his subjects." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred), "A wide-ranging, elegant work of scholarship." -- Library Journal Praise for Peter Ackroyd: "Marvelously erudite and staggeringly industrious." -- Los Angeles Times "For Ackroyd, the past isn't merely past; it's alive." -- Boston Globe "Ackroyd is a medium through which the obscured voices of the past are channeled." -- Newsday "Through it all, the author is a delightful guide. All chroniclers of popular history should be required to study Ackroyd's writing, his methodology, and the totality of his treatment of his subjects." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred)

Series Volume Number6

Dewey Decimal942.082

Table Of ContentContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. The sun never rises 2. Home sweet home 3. The lie of the land 4. Plates in the air 5. The most powerful thing 6. Demands for reform 7. The Terrible Twins 8. What happened to the gentry? 9. Car crazy 10. Little hammers in their muffs 11. The Orange card 12. The black sun 13. Forced to fight 14. The regiment of women 15. The clock stops 16. England's Irish question 17. Gay as you like 18. Labour at the summit 19. Where is the match? 20. Get on, or get out 21. Crash 22. The rituals of suburbia 23. Now we can have some fun 24. The country of the dole 25. The Fasci 26. The bigger picture 27. The Spanish tragedy 28. This is absolutely terrible 29. The alteration 30. The march of the ants 31. Would you like an onion? 32. The pangs of austerity 33. The cruel real world 34. An old world 35. The washing machine 36. Plays and players 37. Riots of passage 38. North and south 39. Elvis on a budget 40. This sporting life 41. Old lace and arsenic 42. The new brutalism 43. The soothing dark 44. In place of peace 45. Bugger them all 46. The first shot 47. The fall of Heath 48. The slot machine 49. Let us bring harmony 50. Here she comes 51. The Falklands flare-up 52. The Big Bang 53. The Brighton blast 54. Was she always right? 55. Money, money, money 56. The curtain falls 57. The fall of sterling 58. One's bum year 59. Put up or shut up 60. The moral abyss 61. A chapter of accidents 62. The unhappy year 63. The princess leaves the fairy tale Bibliography Index

SynopsisInnovation , the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, takes readers from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later. Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades. It was a century of enormous change, encompassing two world wars, four monarchs (Edward VII, George V, George VI and the Queen), the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the Labour Party, women's suffrage, the birth of the NHS, the march of suburbia and the clearance of the slums. It was a period that saw the work of the Bloomsbury Group and T.S. Eliot, of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, from the end of the post-war slump to the technicolor explosion of the 1960s, to free love and punk rock, and from Thatcher to Blair. A vividly readable, richly peopled tour de force, Innovation is Peter Ackroyd writing at the height of his powers.

LC Classification NumberDA566.A25 2021