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  title info:
    title: Victorious century
    sub title: the United Kingdom, 1800-1906
  name:
    name part: Cannadine, David
    name part: 1950-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 601 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 and 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. Repeatedly, politicians and writers felt themselves to be staring into the abyss and what is seen sometimes seen as an era of irritating self-belief was in practice obsessed by a sense of its own fragility, whether as a great power or as a moral force. Victorious Century is an extraordinarily enjoyable book. Its author catches the relish, humour and theatricality of the age, but also the dilemmas of a kind with which we remain familiar today. It reframes a time at once strangely familiar and yet wholly unlike our own.
  table of contents: Act of Union 1800-02 -- Britannia resurgent 1802-15 -- Great power, great vicissitudes 1815-29 -- The iconoclastic years 1829-41 -- The 'hungry' forties 1841-48 -- Great exhibition, half time 1848-52 -- Equipoise and angst 1852-65 -- Leaping in the dark 1865-80 -- 'Disintegration' averted? 1880-95 -- Jubilation and recessional 1895-1905 -- General election 1905-06.
  note: David Cannadine.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Intellectual life
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: DA530 .C215 2017
  classification: 941.081
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Penguin history of Britain ; 8
  identifier: 9780713998146
  identifier: 0713998148
  identifier: 2017434787
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170505
    record change date: 20180723101403.0
    record identifier: in00003988474