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The Victorians by A N Wilson (Hardcover, 2007)
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We live in the world which the Victorians created. The 'global village' is a Victorian village. Their two great inventions go hand in hand- industrial capitalism, and imperialism. Historians in the past have tended to describe these two great facts in ideological, rather than in personal terms. A. N. Wilson illuminates them through the people who built them. In a panoramic survey of the Victorian Age he describes the men and women who brought the modern age into being. The capitalist world came into being because of actual businessmen, actual journalists, actual politicians. We meet them in the pages of this book. It was challenged by the ideas of such men as Karl Marx, William Morris and George Bernard Shaw - here they are. Here are the lofty and famous - Prince Albert, Lord Palmerston, Charles Dickens, Gladstone and Disraeli - and here too are the poor and the obscure - doctors ministering to cholera victims in the big cities, young women working as models for the famous painters, the man who got the British hooked on cigarettes, the butchers and victims of conflict in Ireland, India and Africa. A. N. Wilson's book is a mosaic, in which hundreds of different lives have been piecProduct Identifiers
PublisherCornerstone
ISBN-139780091796228
eBay Product ID (ePID)91953114
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Victorians
AuthorA N Wilson
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height290mm
Item Width230mm
Item Weight1654g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorA N Wilson
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 23 Jul, 2020
Excellent, detailed, and entertaining.
Excellent, detailed, and entertaining. Lots of great illustrations too.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
