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9780192853981 (10-digit ISBN: 0192853988)
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- Most comprehensive and authoritative short guide to nineteenth-century Britain
- Highly acclaimed text, first published in the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
- Revised and updated for this edition
- Indispensable for students and general readers
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. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, when it faced its greatest test since the defeat of Napoleon, it was largely urban and English. Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew show the forces behind Britain's rise to its imperial zenith, and the continuing tensions within the nations and classes of the 'union state'.
Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible.
Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library.
Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable.
Please note: As this series is not ELT material, these titles are not subject to discount.
1: Reflections on the revolutions
2: Industrial development
3: Reform and religion
4: The wars abroad
5: Roads to freedom
6: Coping with reform
7: Unless the Lord build the city
8: The ringing grooves of change
9: Politics and diplomacy: Palmerstons years
10: Incorporation
11: Free trade: an industrial economy rampant
12: A shifting population: town and country
13: The masses and the classes: the urban worker
14: Clerks and commerce: the lower middle class
15: The propertied classes
16: Pomp and circumstance
17: A great change in manners
18: Villa Tories: the Conservative resurgence
19: Ireland, Scotland, Wales: Home Rule frustrated
20: Reluctant imperialists?
21: The fin-de-siècle reaction: new views of the State
22: Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, Labourism, and tariff reform
23: Edwardian years: a crisis of the State contained
24: Your English summers done
Further reading
Chronology
Prime ministers 1789-1914
Index
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. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, when it faced its greatest test since the defeat of Napoleon, it was largely urban and English. Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew show the forces behind Britain's rise to its imperial zenith, and the continuing tensions within the nations and classes of the 'union state'.
Key Features
- Most comprehensive and authoritative short guide to nineteenth-century Britain
- Highly acclaimed text, first published in the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
- Revised and updated for this edition
- Indispensable for students and general readers
Series Description
Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible.
Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library.
Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable.
Please note: As this series is not ELT material, these titles are not subject to discount.
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