Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67

by Asa Briggs

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This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War," and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark," Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so conjures up an enviable picture of the progress and independence of the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226074870

ISBN13:9780226074870

Release Date:April 1975

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:324 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Related Subjects

England Ethnic & National Europe Historical Study & Educational Resources History Irish Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social History

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