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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
K Theodore Hoppen |
ISBN: | 0198228341 9780198228349 9780198731993 019873199X |
OCLC Number: | 37211065 |
Description: | xviii, 787 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Contents: | pt. 1. Society and the state. The agrarian interest -- The middle sort of people -- Workers by hand -- The nature of the state -- pt. 2. The fabric of politics. Parties, governments, policies 1846-1855 -- Crimean war and Indian mutiny -- Palmerston and after, 1855-1868 -- Reform and electoral politics -- pt. 3. Money and mentalities. A maturing economy -- Living and spending -- The business of culture -- Godly people -- The evolutionary moment -- pt. 4. England and beyond. A British nation? The experiences of Scotland and Wales -- The island of Ireland -- Gladstone and Disraeli 1868-1880 -- Shifts and realignments 1880-1886. |
Series Title: | New Oxford history of England. |
Responsibility: | K. Theodore Hoppen. |
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Abstract:
This, the third volume to appear in the "New Oxford History of England", covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. In his study of the mid-Victorian generation, Theo Hoppen identifies and extrapolates three defining themes.
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This book is a magnificent achievement, a worthy addition to the series, and a volume for which students and lecturers, as well as general readers, will long have reason to be grateful to its author. * Matthew Cragoe, Welsh History Review * Theodore Hoppen's book will define our views of mid-Victorian society for the next two or three generations, and well it should. It is a book written from deep knowledge, wide reading and sparkling historical vision; students and scholars will gain much from reading it. * D. G. Paz, An American Journal - A Quarterly Journal devoted to British Studies * Read more...
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