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

• Autore: Harvie Christopher <1944->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
• Disciplina: 941.081
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain History; Great Britain History 19th century
• Altri autori: MatthewH. C. G (Henry Colin Gray)
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-152) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- 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: Palmerston's 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 Summer's Done' -- Further Reading -- Chronology -- Prime Ministers 1789-1914 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Nineteenth-century Britain
• ISBN: 0-19-151810-7; 1-4356-0946-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824221203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Very short introductions ; ; 23.