Nineteenth-Century Britain: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Nineteenth-Century Britain: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192853981

ISBN-10: 0192853988

ISBN-13: 9780192853981

Edition: 2000

Authors: Christopher Harvie, H. C. G. Matthew, H. C. G. Matthew

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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'.

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List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.85" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Maps



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-Siecle Reaction: New Views of the State



Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, Labourism, and Tariff Reform



Edwardian Years: A Crisis of the State Contained



'Your English Summer's Done'


Further Reading


Chronology


Prime Ministers 1789-1914


Index