Heyday
The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
13 June 2017
Summary
‘Excellent … This is narrative history of the highest quality’ - Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph
‘Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent … clever and entertaining’ - Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. The 1850s was a decade of breathtaking transformation, with striking parallels for our own times. The world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753829219 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0753829215 |
| Author: | Ben Wilson |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 197mm x 32mm |
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The world began speeding up in the 1850s and hasn’t stopped since … Ben Wilson’s richly detailed and compelling narrative of this whirlwind period catches its exhilaration - PROSPECT
Scholarly, intelligent and readable … an original prism through which to view the mid-19th century and, essentially, about the invention not so much of modernity as of globalisation - THE SPECTATORImmensely enjoyable … highly recommendedAbout The Author
Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson is the author of five critically acclaimed books including WHAT PRICE LIBERTY?, for which he received a Somerset Maugham Award, and the bestselling EMPIRE OF THE DEEP. He was born in 1980 and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a first-class degree and an MPhil in history. He lives in Suffolk.
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