The Making of Modern Britain: The Age of Empire to the New Millennium Tapa dura - 2001

Hardback. Very Good.

Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2001. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1150grams, ISBN:9780750921299

History Press Limited, The. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Sutton Publishing Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 2001. Hard Cover. 4to 0750921293 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Colour frontis plate. Colour and b/w illustrations. 273 pages clean and tight. An account of Britain's rise and fall over the past 200 years, painting a provocative picture of a once great nation reduced to a European statelet. The text opens in 1776 with the declaration of war by the American colonies, the publication of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", the first parts of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" and, in 1777, the erection of the ironbridge at Coalbrookdale. These are all, argues Jeremy Black, emblems of the modernity that was to change Britain's green and pleasant land for all time. He demonstrates that the Britain we know today and which has shaped our identity has outgrown the industrial and commercial empire which once made Britain great… Leer más

New York: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2001. a solid copy; ---------- SATISFACTION GUARANTEED --------- FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE ------ ALL DUSTJACKETS ARE COVERED WITH NEW CLEAR MYLAR PROTECTOR -----. First Edition UK. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 7 x 10".

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