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Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

Author: 
Christopher Harvie; Colin Matthew
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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'.

Index: 

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

About the author: 

Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew were both brought up and educated in Edinburgh. Harvie went via the Open University to become Professor of British and Irish Studies at Tubingen in Germany, becoming a historian of modern Scotland and North Sea oil; from Oxford, Matthew edited the Gladstone Diaries, wrote an award-winning life of the Victorian statesman, and became Editor of the New Dictionary of National Biography in 1992. Colin Matthew died in 1999.

Product details

ISBN : 9780192853981

Author: 
Christopher Harvie; Colin Matthew
Pages
192 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
113 x 179 mm
Pub date
Oct 2000
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Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction