Late Victorian Britain 1875-1901

ISBN-13: 9780415058704 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 268 str.

J.F.C. Harrison

Opis

In the first quarter of the 19th century the British people began to examine the previously unquestioned links between progress and prosperity, having discovered that economic growth was not automatically benign. Orthodoxies were challenged and doubts raised - many believed they were living in an era of great flux. Their responses were to prompt manifold change.

Recenzje

`... a well considered and well informed potrait of English society in the last quarter on the nineteenth century.' I

Spis treści

Part 1 The Victorian Achievement; Chapter 1 Progress and Poverty; Part 2 Social Structure; Chapter 2 The Elite; Chapter 3 Comfortable England; Chapter 4 Labouring Life; Part 3 Perceptions and Values; Chapter 5 Certainties; Chapter 6 Doubts and Anxieties; Part 4 Processes of Change; Chapter 7 England Arise!; Chapter 8 The Woman Question; Chapter 9 The Condition of the People; Part 5 Epilogue; Chapter 10 The End of Equipoise;

O autorze

J.F.C. Harrison