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Heyday - The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age (Paperback)
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Heyday - The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age (Paperback)
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Loot Price R357
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'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 migration and war.
The global economy expanded fivefold, millions of families
emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out new lives,
technology revolutionised communications, while steamships and
railways cut across vast continents and oceans, shrinking the world
and creating the first global age. In a fast-paced, kaleidoscopic
narrative, the acclaimed historian Ben Wilson recreates this time
of explosive energy and dizzying change, a rollercoaster ride of
booms and bust, focusing on the lives of the men and women
reshaping its frontiers. At the centre stands Great Britain. The
country was the peak of its power as it attempted to determine the
destinies of hundreds of millions of people. A dazzling history of
a tumultuous decade, HEYDAY reclaims an often overlooked period
that was fundamental not only in in the making of Britain but of
the modern world.
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