Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century British History in Honour of Walter L.Arnstein

These essays in 19th- and 20th-century British history are collected together in honour of historian Walter L. Arnstein. Topics addressed include: Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Derby, party politics and naval administration; 20th-century health care choices in Lancashire working-class communities; the London Missionary Society's Mongolian Missions - British insights into the "Great Game" in Asia; religious periodicals and their influence in the Victorian prelude; the Bismarck myth and the Congress of Berlin in the British review press, 1878-1879; advertising the army - political aesthetics and British Army fashion, 1815-1855; and more.

Table of Contents:
Walter L. Arnstein, teacher and mentor, Michael H. Shirley and Todd E.A. Larson; Walter L. Arnstein - a collegial and personal appreciation, Paul W. Schroeder; "A Whig private secretary is in itself fatal" - Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Derby, party politics and naval administration, 1852, John Beeler; "I used to take her to the doctor's and get the proper thing" - 20th-century health care choices in Lancashire working-class communities, Lucinda McCray Beier; the London Missionary Society's Mongolian Missions - British insights into the "Great Game" in Asia, Helen S. Hundley; "The Prince of Wales" -caricature, charivari, and the politics of morality, Tamara Hunt; debtor to the Greeks and Barbarians - religious periodicals and their influence in the Victorian prelude, Marsh Wilkinson Jones; pyrrhic victory? The Bismarck myth and the Congress of Berlin in the British review press, 1878-1879, Todd E.A. Larson; advertising the army - political aesthetics and British Army fashion, 1815-1855, Scott Hughes Myerly; the 19th-century British townscape and the return of the market place to Victorian history, James Schmiechen; cinemas and their managers in depression England - a social function, Stephen Shafer; chartists after Chartism - Reynolds's newspaper and mid-Victorian political reform, Michael H. Shirley; free trade radicals, education, and moral improvement in early Victorian England, Richard F. Spall Jr; Walter L. Arnstein - a bibliography.