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Sto caricando le informazioni... Meet the Georgians: Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century (edizione 2021)di Robert Peal
Informazioni sull'operaMeet the Georgians: Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century di Robert Peal
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The Georgian era lasted over 100 years and was seen as a time of indulgence and conquest. Sandwiched between the seventeenth century and the concerns about the Stuart dynasty and the more straight-laced Victorians, the Georgians seemed to be all about pleasure. In this book Peal writes potted biographies of 12 notables and uses them to illustrate the trends and views over time. In the main I enjoyed this book, the biographies were short and entertaining. However I was irritated by Peal's use of modern idiom eg. calling an attractive woman a 'honey', in addition the choice of subjects seemed more than a little driven by the mores of now - a woke selection encompassing gender, race and LGBTQ+. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
'The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not to want to live there yourself' GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist who fought for women's rights Ladies of Llangollen, the lovers who built paradise in a Welsh valley 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' is how Lord Byron, the poet who drank wine from a monk's skull and slept with his half-sister, was described by one of his many lovers. But 'mad, bad and dangerous' serves as a good description for the entire Georgian period: often neglected, the hundred or so years between the coronation of George I in 1714 and the death of George IV in 1830 were years when the modern world was formed, and changes came thick and fast. Across this century, new foods - pineapples, coffee and pepper - suddenly became available in the shops. Fashion exploded into a riot of colour, frilly shirts and wigs. Gin was drunk like it was water. Demands for women's rights were heard, and it became possible to question the existence of God without fear of prompt execution. These exciting new developments came, of course, from the expanding British Empire. Britain's wealth and its sudden access to chocolate, chillies and spices, was entirely bound up with the conquest of overseas territories and the miserable suffering of enslaved workers. This is the backdrop to Robert Peal's new book, which introduces the Georgian era through the diverse lives of twelve 'magnificent - if not moral' people who defined it. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)941.070922History and Geography Europe British Isles Historical periods of British Isles 1714-1837 Period of House of HanoverVotoMedia:
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