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Ian Mortimer - Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain

The immersive and brilliant historical guide to Regency Britain

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What it was really like to live in the age of Austen, Byron and Waterloo? Covering the years from the French Revolution to the death of George IV, this immersive guide asks what it actually felt like to travel through Regency Britain. What would you wear? What would you eat? How quickly could you travel? Where would you stay, and what happened if you became ill or fell foul of the law? Behind the thrills and frills of the Regency age lay rapid urbanisation, industrialisation, population growth and political upheaval .New roads, canals and the early railways changed travel; consumer culture reshaped homes and clothing; policing and medicine transformed public life. Allowing us a close look at street level, Ian Mortimer combines the practical details of everyday life with the larger social changes driving them. The result is a Regency Britain that is exuberant, unequal, inventive and already much closer to the modern world than its costumes suggest. ‘Excellent… Mortimer’s erudition is formidable’ The Times ‘Ian Mortimer has made this kind of imaginative time travel his specialty’ Daily Mail
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Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times-bestselling author of the Time Traveller's Guides to Medieval England, Elizabethan England, Restoration Britain and Regency Britain, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize in 2004 and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.

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Mortimer's accessible guidebook format brings...[Regency Britain] vividly to life

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  1. 5/5 Lumi

    Väldigt bra bok och underhållande. Älskar hur han detaljerat guidar en igenom hela tidsperioden, allt från hur befolkningen ökade, mode (hur t.ex. Beau Brummell ändrade modet för män) hur man bodde/levde beroende på samhällsklass, vad man åt och drack, underhållning, hur man reste och mycket mycket mer.
    Är man historiskt intresserad och gillar sådant som regency och 1800-talets början (1700-talet slut) så är det här jättebra bok.
    Gillar du läsa böcker på engelska är den här att rekommendera, vissa avancerade ord måste man ändå slå upp som svensk eller om han pratar om en viss person/avstånd i miles/valutor så kan man alltid söka upp det.

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