Mitchell Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England

Adams J.T. Empire on the Seven Seas. The British Empire 1784-1939

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Lnd. : Charles Scrinber's Sons, 1940. -391 P. Contents: The New Era. The Empire and French Revolution. The Expanding Empire. The Napoleonic Struggle. After Napoleon. The Revolution in Ideas. The Breath of New Life. Early Victorian. The Turn of the Century. New Powers and New Forces. The New Imperialism. The Reaction from Imperialism. The Edwardian Period. The World War and After.

Beasley E. Empire as the Triumph of Theory: Imperialism, Information and the Colonial Society of 1868 (British and Foreign and Colonial Policy)

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London.: Routledge, 2005. - 232 p. Product Description Who were the first people to invent a world-historical mission for the British Empire? And what were the constituencies behind the development of the imperialistic thinking in mid-Victorian England? These questions are vital for understanding where the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century came from. Empire as the Triumph of Theory takes as its sample the more than two hundred earl...

Daunton M. The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, Volume 3: 1840-1950

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Cambridge University Press, 2001. - 970 pp. The third volume in the Cambridge Urban History examines the process of urbanization and suburbanization in Britain from the early Victorian period to the twentieth century. Twenty-eight leading scholars provide a coherent, systematic, historical investigation of the rise of cities and towns in England, Scotland and Wales, examining their economic, demographic, social, political, cultural and physical...

Hirst Derek. England in Conflict 1603-1660: Kingdom, Community, Commonwealth

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Bloomsbury, 1999. - 368 p. In his new text, Derek Hirst, one of the foremost living historians of seventeenth-century England, has created a wholesale revision of his classic Authority and Conflict and draws on a decade of new research that has appeared since the original book to produce a wholly fresh work. Centered around ambiguities of community in early modern England, the text enlivens debates over revisionism, Puritanism, the church, and w...

Hoppit J. A Land of Liberty? : England 1689-1727

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Oxford University Press, 2000. - 624 pp. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0198228422 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780198228424 The Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 was a decisive moment in England's history; an invading Dutch army forced James II to flee France, and his son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary, were crowned as joint sovereigns. The wider consequences were no less startling: war in Ireland, union with Scotland, Jacobite intrigue, deep involvement in two major E...

Legge A.O. The unpopular king: the life and times of Richard III. Vol. 1

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London: Ward and Downey, 1885. - 315 p. On the 22nd of August, 1485, King Richard III. fell at the battle of Bosworth Field. Three months later Oaxton gave to the world his magnum opus, the Golden Legend. The royal line of Plantagenet came to an untimely end; the Printing Press was fairly launched upon its beneficent mission. Two such events distinctly mark a new point of departure in the annals of our country, and suggest contrasts between the...

Legge A.O. The unpopular king: the life and times of Richard III. Vol. 2

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London: Ward and Downey, 1885. - 315 p. On the 22nd of August, 1485, King Richard III. fell at the battle of Bosworth Field. Three months later Oaxton gave to the world his magnum opus, the Golden Legend. The royal line of Plantagenet came to an untimely end; the Printing Press was fairly launched upon its beneficent mission. Two such events distinctly mark a new point of departure in the annals of our country, and suggest contrasts between the...

Mandler Peter (editor). Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006. 272 pages. Language: English. Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of "laissez-faire," the place and the time when people were most "free" to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book, by leading historians of nineteenth-century state and society, asks to what extent that was true and, to the extent that it was, how it worked.

Perkin Harold. The Origins of Modern English Society

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Routledge, 2002. - 488 p. Bringing together subjects such as culture, religion, morals, politics, economics, and mentality, Perkin presents and applies a holistic concept of social history in the tradition of great historians of the past. In this classic text of social history, Harold Perkin explores the emergence of a new form of class society in Victorian England, which differed radically from early modern society. He locates the origins of...

Scragg Donald (Edited). Edgar, King of the English 959-975: New Interpretations (Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies)

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Boydell Press: 2008 - 296 p. ISBN10: 1843833999, ISBN13: 9781843833994 King Edgar ruled England for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth century. Two of his four children succeeded him as king and two were to become canonized. He was known to later generations as 'the Pacific' or 'the Peaceable' because his reign was free from external attack and without internal dissention, and he presided over a period of major social and...