Nineteenth-century Britain : a very short introduction
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- ISBN: 0192853988 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780192853981 (pbk.)
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171 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 18 cm. - Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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General Note: | Text originally published in: The Oxford illustrated history of Britain. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1984. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-152) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 : Palmerston's 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-siƩcle 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'. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | DA 530 .H378 2000 | 30775305487770 | General Collection | Available | - |
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Nineteenth-Century Britain: a Very Short Introduction
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability.