The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1914 (Routledge Companions to History) - Hardcover

Cook, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415359694 ISBN 13: 9780415359696

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914 is an accessible and indispensable compendium of essential information on the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Using chronologies, maps, glossaries, an extensive bibliography, a wealth of statistical information and nearly two hundred biographies of key figures, this clear and concise book provides a comprehensive guide to modern British history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the outbreak of the First World War.

As well as the key areas of political, economic and social development of the era, this book also covers the increasingly emergent themes of sexuality, leisure, gender and the environment, exploring in detail the following aspects of the nineteenth century:

• parliamentary and political reform
• chartism, radicalism and popular protest
• the Irish Question
• the rise of Imperialism
• the regulation of sexuality and vice
• the development of organised sport and leisure
• the rise of consumer society.

This book is an ideal reference resource for students and teachers alike.

About this title

Synopsis:

This vast compendium of facts and figures follows on from its highly successful and well-established predecessor, and has been updated and expanded to include recent themes and more detailed studies. This is the complete companion to "Victorian Britain", and the place to go to find out everything from the nuts and bolt of electoral reform, and who held which cabinet position through the period, through to the development of sport and leisure; when the FA Cup was established and when the Wimbledon Championship first began. In its user-friendly format "The Companion" collates information the political, economic, imperial, social and cultural life of nineteenth-century Britain, and introduces material on more recently-emerged themes such as travel, masculinity, Englishness and retail. Lists, chronologies and bibliographies among so much more, ensure that this fascinating book will be an essential reference resource for both students and teachers.

About the Author:

Chris Cook was Head of the Modern Archives Unit at the London School of Economics and is co-author (with John Stevenson) of The Routledge Companion to European History since 1763 and The Routledge Companion to World History since 1914.  A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society he is also author of European Political Facts of the Twentieth Century and the best-selling Pears Cyclopedia.  He is currently compiling British Political Archives since the Second World War.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415359694
• ISBN 13: 9780415359696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368