In These Times - Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815
by Jenny Uglow
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | January 2015 | ISBN-10: 0374280908 | ePUB | 802 pages | 19.4 mb

A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian
We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars—but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers—how did the war touch their lives?
Jenny Uglow follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century.

About the Author
Jenny Uglow’s books include prizewinning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell and William Hogarth. The Lunar Men (FSG, 2002) was described by Richard Holmes as “an extraordinarily gripping account,” while Nature’s Engraver won the National Arts Writers Award for 2007. A Gambling Man (FSG, 2009) was short-listed for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Uglow grew up in Cumbria and now lives in Canterbury, England.

CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Map  
I : STIRRING, 1789–1792  
II : ARMING, 1793–1796 
III : WATCHING, 1797–1801
IV : PAUSING, 1801–1803
V : SAILING, 1803–1808
VI : FIGHTING, 1809–1815
VII : ENDINGS, 1815 and beyond
Acknowledgements
Principal events of the wars
Sources and abbreviations
Select bibliography
Notes
Index
List of Illustrations
 
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