Arcadia: England and the Dream of PerfectionA fascinating depiction from award winning author, Adam Nicolson, of a family and a country on the hinge of modernisation. Was our country once a better place? Has modernisation destroyed as much as it has improved? And can we see in an earlier Britain a way of living, an Arcadia, which now seems both ideal and remote? Through 16th and 17th century England, the changes of an approaching modernity accelerated. With the growing power of the state, the