{"product_id":"the-victorians-from-empire-and-industry-to-poverty-and-famine-1","title":"Victorians","description":"\u003cp\u003e'We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.' - W. Somerset Maugham \u003cbr\u003eThe Victorian era boasted the glory of the Empire and the grandeur that Empire afforded, it saw huge technological advances in civil engineering and transport, mass urbanisation and social change, as well as still-treasured literature and the most popular sports that we play today. But it was also a time of great poverty, of mass child labour and prostitution, of the Irish Potato Famine and British concentration camps in the Boer War, of the boom and bust of the California Gold Rush and slavery being fought over in America, of sexual hypocrisy and rigid class differences. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Victorians \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the Victorian world from its cholera epidemics and asylums to its workhouses and chimneysweeps, from the Opium Wars to London’s opium dens, from the gangs of New York to convicts bound for Australia, from body-snatchers to freakshows, from the British in Afghanistan to the American Civil War, from imposters claiming fortunes to women pretending to be men. Included are the lives of such colourful figures as Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, the Elephant Man and Jack the Ripper, and the world that inspired Dracula, detective stories and the character of Sherlock Holmes. \u003cbr\u003eExpertly written and using 180 photographs, paintings, and illustrations, \u003ci\u003eThe Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that behind the splendour and the facades was a world of poverty, disease and hypocrisy, where fortunes could be quickly made – and swiftly lost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amber Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49742427685208,"sku":"9781838861254","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-victorians-from-empire-and-industry-to-poverty-and-famine-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}