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The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914,Simon Heffer- 9780099592242
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914
- ISBN
- 9780099592242
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914
- Item Height
- 198 mm
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Subject
- History
- Item Weight
- 678 g
- Item Width
- 129 mm
- Number of Pages
- 912 Pages
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A major new work by one of Britain's leading journalists and most acclaimed historians 'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.' Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V's coronation and the London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet things were very different below the surface. In The Age of Decadence Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation's massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century's gravest constitutional crisis and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history. He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists' public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press and the science fiction of H. G. Wells, but also the Arts and Crafts of William Morris and the nostalgia of A. E. Housman. And he concludes with the crisis that in the summer of 1914 threatened the existence of the United Kingdom - a looming civil war in Ireland. He lights up the era through vivid pen-portraits of the great men and women of the day - including Gladstone, Parnell, Asquith and Churchill, but also Mrs Pankhurst, Beatrice Webb, Baden-Powell, Wilde and Shaw - creating a richly detailed panorama of a great power that, through both accident and arrogance, was forced to face potentially fatal challenges. 'A devastating critique of prewar Britain . . . disturbingly relevant to the world in which we live.' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'You won't put it down . . . A really riveting read.' Rana Mitter, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornerstone
ISBN-13
9780099592242
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Number of Pages
912 Pages
Publication Name
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
198 mm
Item Weight
678 g
Item Width
129 mm
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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