Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

Christopher Harvie, the late H. C. G. Matthew9780192853981, 0192853988

Книга Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction Книги Иностранные языки Автор: Christopher Harvie, H. C. G. Matthew Год издания: 2005 Формат: pdf Издат.:Oxford University Press, USA Страниц: 172 Размер: 2,1 Mb ISBN: 0192853988 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:The nineteenth century was a time of massive growth for Britain. In 1800 it was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half-Celtic. A century later it was largely urban and English. The effects of the Industrial Revolution caused cities to swell enormously. London, for example, grew from about 1 million people to over 6 million. Abroad, the British Empire was reaching its apex, while at home the world came to marvel at the Great Exhibition of 1851 with its crowning achievement–the Crystal Palace. Historians Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew present a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the social, economic, and political events that marked the era on which many believed the sun would never set

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 10
List of Illustrations……Page 12
List of Maps……Page 14
1 Reflections on the Revolutions……Page 16
2 Industrial Development……Page 24
3 Reform and Religion……Page 33
4 The Wars Abroad……Page 37
5 Roads to Freedom……Page 45
6 Coping with Reform……Page 50
7 ‘Unless the Lord Build the City …’……Page 56
8 ‘The Ringing Grooves of Change’……Page 63
9 Politics and Diplomacy: Palmerston’s Years……Page 69
10 Incorporation……Page 74
11 Free Trade: An Industrial Economy Rampant……Page 79
12 A Shifting Population: Town and Country……Page 92
13 The Masses and the Classes: The Urban Worker……Page 101
14 Clerks and Commerce: The Lower Middle Class……Page 109
15 The Propertied Classes……Page 112
16 Pomp and Circumstance……Page 116
17 ‘A Great Change in Manners’……Page 120
18 ‘Villa Tories’: The Conservative Resurgence……Page 122
19 Ireland, Scotland, Wales: Home Rule Frustrated……Page 127
20 Reluctant Imperialists?……Page 133
21 The Fin-de-Siècle Reaction: New Views of the State……Page 140
22 Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, Labourism, and Tariff Reform……Page 146
23 Edwardian Years: A Crisis of the State Contained……Page 151
24 ‘Your English Summer’s Done’……Page 158
Further Reading……Page 162
Chronology……Page 168
Prime Ministers 1789-1914……Page 174
B……Page 176
C……Page 177
D……Page 178
G……Page 179
K……Page 180
M……Page 181
P……Page 182
S……Page 183
T……Page 184
W……Page 185
Y……Page 186