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To live in Victorian 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; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one. In his major new book David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of Victorian Britain. 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 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 staginess of the age, but also the dilemmas of a kind with which we remain familiar today.

About the Author :
Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, Visiting Professor at Oxford University and the Editor of the National Dictionary of Biography. His major works include The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Ornamentalism, Class in Britain and Mellon- An American Life. He is the general editor of two major series- The Penguin History of Britain and The Penguin History of Europe.Victorious Century is his volume for the former series.

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magnificent..a thumping great book, and it is probably destined to become a classic..Extraordinarily for a history book there are no footnotes. Only a historian at the very top of his game can do that and get away with it, and Cannadine succeeds triumphantly. A book such as this is a work of heroic summary. Reviews for THE UNDIVIDED PAST: 'Cannadine marshals modern scholarship, a sure historical sweep, and a confident polemic' Tristram Hunt; 'Cannadine urges us to see through [prejudices] and past them, to get away from the old chestnuts of class, race, gender and the rest, and to concentrate on exploring what brings us together'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780713998146
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Allen Lane
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 624
  • Sub Title: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0713998148
  • Publisher Date: 28 Sep 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 42 mm
  • Weight: 1095 gr


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