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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140249559
ISBN-139780140249552
eBay Product ID (ePID)1762473
Product Key Features
Book TitleHistory in Our Time
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicRoyalty, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), History & Theory, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year2001
GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorDavid Cannadine
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.9 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal941.082
SynopsisHow did the House of Windsor transform itself into a wealth-creating machine which has built up a huge private fortune from public funds? how did the (apparently) happy family on the throne turn dysfunctional, and a glitzy royal marriage degenerate into the ghastly spectacle of two sad, spoiled, solipsistic individuals slugging it out in public?