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Author: Christopher Harvie

Year Published: 2005

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: PDF 172 pages

ISBN: 0192853988 (0-19-285398-8)

ISBN 13: 9780192853981 (978-0-19-285398-1)

List Price: $11.95

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The nineteenth century was a time of massive growth for Britain. In 1800 it was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half-Celtic. A century later it was largely urban and English. The effects of the Industrial Revolution caused cities to swell enormously. London, for example, grew from about 1 million people to over 6 million. Abroad, the British Empire was reaching its apex, w...The nineteenth century was a time of massive growth for Britain. In 1800 it was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half-Celtic. A century later it was largely urban and English. The effects of the Industrial Revolution caused cities to swell enormously. London, for example, grew from about 1 million people to over 6 million. Abroad, the British Empire was reaching its apex, while at home the world came to marvel at the Great Exhibition of 1851 with its crowning achievement--the Crystal Palace. Historians Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew present a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the social, economic, and political events that marked the era on which many believed the sun would never set.

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

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