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The Nineteenth Century: The British Isles, 1815-1901 (Shot Oxford History of the British Isles) - Hardcover
Synopsis
The complete "Short Oxford History of The British Isles" covers the history of the British Isles from the Roman Era to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues including society, economy, religion, politics, and culture head-on in chapters that are wide-ranging surveys and searching analyses. Each book is specifically designed with the non-specialist reader in mind; but the authority of the contributors and the vigour of the interpretations makes them suitable reading for fellow academics across a range of disciplines. The 19th century was Britain's moment as a world power, not only in the narrow political sense, but with respect to a vast range of activities and achievements. This book sets out to describe the force and complexity of that experience, and to cover, in an interdisciplinary way, the political, economic, and cultural history of the British Isles between 1815 and 1901.
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Review
Victorian Britain was Britain at its best--a dynamic economy, a powerful empire, a stable class society (eventually) and a bold spirit of invention and design. Victorian Britain was also the country at its worst--a yawning poverty gap, a religious fervour that fed racism social neglect and a philistinism that closed British culture off from its European heritage. It was, in other words, an age of contradictions, many of which are neatly captured in this volume in the "Short Oxford History of the British Isles". Colin Matthew and his team offer a series of thematic chapters, which take in the economy, empire, religion, the "woman" question, and the arts and architecture. There are helpful maps and an accurate chronology. There is more on culture than on politics or foreign policy. References to Darwin outnumber those to Disraeli. One or two contributions are too specialised for a volume of this sort, others are too schematic and pointillist. Only Martin Daunton on the economy gets the whole century into perspective. For better or for worse, historians are usually rather reticent and reserved in their judgement of the Victorian achievement, and this collection is no exception. --Miles Taylor
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"Excellent surveys with many fresh insights", (W H Fraser, Professor, University of Strathclyde)
The formula of encouraging experts to contribute a chapter on their own field of speciality results in the reader being treated convincingly to opinions and arguments abreast with current histography s
Matthew's Nineteenth Century comes as near to authoritative knowledge as is possible (Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Literary Supplement,)
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0198731442
- ISBN 13 9780198731443
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages358
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