The eighth volume of John Richard Green’s History of the English People covers the turbulent decades from George III’s accession through the end of the Napoleonic Wars, encompassing the American Revolution, the loss of the American colonies, the crisis of the French Revolution, and Britain’s long struggle against Napoleon. Green’s social history approach keeps the experience of ordinary English people in view throughout these decades of war and political upheaval.
This volume brings Green’s great narrative near to its conclusion, charting the emergence of modern Britain from the Georgian world. Download the free EPUB for one of Victorian England’s most beloved historians at his most engaged and expansive.