Victorious century : the United Kingdom, 1800-1906
Le rabat de la jaquette indique : "Nineteenth-century Britons experienced an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities swelled to previously unimaginable sizes, there were great leaps forward in science and technology that, when coupled with a growing religious skepticism, rendere...
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Format : | Livre |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | Victorious century : the United Kingdom, 1800-1906 / David Cannadine |
Publié : |
New York, New York :
Viking
, copyright 2017 |
Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (xxi-601 p.-[16] p. de pl.) |
Collection : | The Penguin history of Britain sous la dir. de David Cannadine ; 8 |
Sujets : |
- 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