A Companion to Nineteenth-Century BritainChris Williams John Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 624 pages A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the late Georgian and Victorian eras.
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... history and cultural theory. Lesley A. Hall is an archivist at the Wellcome Library for the History and ... Social Change in Britain since 1880 (2000); and co-edited volumes on Sexual Cultures in Europe (1999) and Venereal Diseases in ...
... history and cultural theory. Lesley A. Hall is an archivist at the Wellcome Library for the History and ... Social Change in Britain since 1880 (2000); and co-edited volumes on Sexual Cultures in Europe (1999) and Venereal Diseases in ...
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... History and Associate Dean ofthe Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in Early-NineteenthCentury India (1995); co-editor (with ...
... History and Associate Dean ofthe Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Between Mars and Mammon: Colonial Armies and the Garrison State in Early-NineteenthCentury India (1995); co-editor (with ...
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... History in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University. He is co-author of The History of Bethlem ... Social History 1050–1750 (1995) and Migration and Society in Britain 1550–1830 (2000). Chris Williams is Professor of ...
... History in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University. He is co-author of The History of Bethlem ... Social History 1050–1750 (1995) and Migration and Society in Britain 1550–1830 (2000). Chris Williams is Professor of ...
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... social, and social to political change'. This was a period of 'new thoughts and new ideals'.2 'Modern history', he wrote, 'beginning from the England of 1780, is a series of dissolving views', with 'the rate of progress in man's command ...
... social, and social to political change'. This was a period of 'new thoughts and new ideals'.2 'Modern history', he wrote, 'beginning from the England of 1780, is a series of dissolving views', with 'the rate of progress in man's command ...
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... social and cultural history. The prodigious enterprise of Asa Briggs brought the nineteenth century alive for a new audience, whether through his volume in the Longman History of England series (The Age of Improvement 1783–1867 ...
... social and cultural history. The prodigious enterprise of Asa Briggs brought the nineteenth century alive for a new audience, whether through his volume in the Longman History of England series (The Age of Improvement 1783–1867 ...
Contents
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Part II Politics and Government | 93 |
Part III Economy and Society | 203 |
Part IV Society and Culture | 335 |
Part V The United Kingdom | 471 |
Bibliography of Secondary Sources | 553 |
Index | 591 |
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