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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Auteur principal : Cannadine David (Auteur)
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