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EARLY VICTORIAN BRITAIN
1832 - 1851
AUTHOR: J.F.C. Harrison
PUBLISHED: Fontana Press, London. 1988
FORMAT: Pb, 192pp, notes, index
CONDITION: Used...ex-library stock, so expect library stamps/marks/stickers
Some wear around edges/cover, otherwise in good, sound &
clean condition
For people in all walks of life, the period between the passing of the Great Reform Bill and the Great Exhibition was one of turbulence and change, where massive events such as the new Poor Law, the coming of the railways, Chartism, the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Great Irish Famine were set against a background of political manoeuvring and violent economic fluctuations.
The author offers a thorough and entertaining survey of this crucial phase of British history.
Contents -
• The social experience of industrialism
• Patterns of pverty: labouring people
• The Condition-of-England question
• Patterns of prosperity: The Middling & Upper classes
• Early Victorian values
• Social change & social movements
“I read...with uninterrupted delight, entranced that English historians could combine so dazzlingly scholarship and art. The most learned can benefit...the least instructed can read with pleasure.”
A.J.P. Taylor