| Publication |
New York, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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| Description |
171pBlue Spine
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| Series |
Very Short Introductions
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| Summary/Abstract |
Nineteenth-century Britain gives a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change - and an even more remarkable political stability.
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| Contents |
Reflections on the revolutions
Industrial development
Reform and religion
The wars abroad
Roads to freedom
Coping with reform
Unless the Lord build the city
The ringing grooves of change
Politics and diplomacy: Palmerstons years
Incorporation
Free trade: an industrial economy rampant
A shifting population: town and country
The masses and the classes: the urban worker
Clerks and commerce: the lower middle class
The propertied classes
Pomp and circumstance
A great change in manners
Villa Tories: the Conservative resurgence
Ireland, Scotland, Wales: Home Rule frustrated
Reluctant imperialists?
The fin-de-si`ecle reaction: new views of the State
Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, Labourism, and tariff reform
Edwardian years: a crisis of the State contained
Your English summers done
Further reading
Chronology
Prime ministers 1789-1914
Index
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| Standard Number |
0192853988 Pb.
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