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The 1850s was a decade of breathtaking transformation, with striking parallels for our own times. It was the dawn of the first global age, when the world was reshaped and connected by technology, trade, mass migration and war. In a fast-paced, kaleidoscopic narrative, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson recreates this time of dizzying change, focusing on the lives of the men and women on its frontiers and with Great Britain, at the peak of its power, at the centre. A dazzling history of a tumultuous decade, Heyday reclaims an often- overlooked period that was fundamental not only in the making of Brit but of the modern world.ISBN:9780753829219
