Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906
The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
David Cannadine
ISBN: | 9780141019130 |
Publisher: | Penguin |
Published: | 6 September, 2018 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Penguin AU |
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906
The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
David Cannadine
To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. There were revolutions in transport, communication, work; cities grew vast; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one. In his dazzling new book David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of the British nineteenth century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice. This was a country which saw itself at the summit of the world. And yet it was a society also convulsed by doubt, fear and introspection. Victorious Century reframes a time at once strangely familiar and yet wholly unlike our own.
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