Nineteenth-century Britain : a very short introduction / Christopher Harvie and H.C.G. Matthew

By:

Harvie, Christopher, 1944-

Contributor(s):

Matthew, H. C. G. (Henry Colin Gray)

Material type:

TextSeries: Very short introductions ; 23Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: 171 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 18 cmISBN:

9780192853981 (pbk.)

Other title:

Nineteenth century Britain: a very short introduction

Subject(s):

Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Contents:

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-siecle 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

Summary: This is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change, and an even more remarkable political stability as 19th century Britain moved from being rural, agrarian and multilingual to being largely urban and English.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-152) and index

This is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change, and an even more remarkable political stability as 19th century Britain moved from being rural, agrarian and multilingual to being largely urban and English.