A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians."An evocative account . . .[Cannadine] tells his own story persuasively and exceedingly well.” &m
Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime minister. The longest
For a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his flamboyant predecessor Edward VII, inventing the mode
Throughout history, humanity has defined itself by the mutually-exclusive and adversarial identities of nationhood, race or civilization; religion, gender or class. David Cannadine's provocative, mast
The award-winning author of The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy shares a provocative argument against the belief that history is best understood as a chronicle of groups in conflict, inves
Examines British preoccupation with class and different ways the British have thought about their own society. From the eighteenth through the twentieth century, this book traces the different ways Br
