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Dominion

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06 September 2018
352 pages
9781509881314
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

A masterful assessment of a period that saw change in every area of lifeHistory Revealed
It is Ackroyd’s depiction of an anxious society in the grip of rapid change – industrialisation, fast urbanisation, the impact of the railway and the electric telegraph – that is the most riveting … fascinatingThe Times
Ackroyd makes history accessible to the laymanIan Thomson, Independent
Ackroyd is a fascinating mix of a nineteenth-century narrative historian and modern social analystGerard de Groot, The Times