How They Brought the Good News
Colin Kidd: Britain’s Napoleonic Wars, 20 November 2014
In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815
by Jenny Uglow.
Faber, 739 pp., £25, November 2014,978 0 571 26952 5 Show More
by Jenny Uglow.
Faber, 739 pp., £25, November 2014,
“... embarked on a moderate constitutional revolution not unlike England’s Whig Revolution of 1688. Edmund Burke, an early doomsayer in his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), was out of step with the optimism of his contemporaries. As Uglow reminds us, the prime minister throughout the first phase of the wars, William Pitt the Younger, wasn’t the ... ”