19th century england
A01=Asa Briggs
Author_Asa Briggs
benjamin disraeli
biography
british history
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crimean war
crystal palace
culture
democracy
english constitution
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gospel of work
great exhibition
historic achievements
independence
john arthur roebuck
labor negotiations
leap in the dark
london
parliament
policy
politicians
politics
progress
public schools
queen victoria
samuel smiles
second reform act
thomas hughes
trade unions
victorian period
welfare state
Product details
- ISBN 9780226074887
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 14 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 1975
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War", and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark", Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so conjures up an enviable picture of the progress and independence of the last century.
"For expounding this theme, this interaction of event and personality, Mr. Briggs is abundantly and happily endowed. He is always readable, often amusing, never facetious. He is widely read and widely interested. He has a sound historic judgment, and an unfailing sense for what is significant in the historic sequence and what is merely topical. . . . Above all, he is in sympathy with the age of which he is writing."—Times Literary Supplement
"For expounding this theme, this interaction of event and personality, Mr. Briggs is abundantly and happily endowed. He is always readable, often amusing, never facetious. He is widely read and widely interested. He has a sound historic judgment, and an unfailing sense for what is significant in the historic sequence and what is merely topical. . . . Above all, he is in sympathy with the age of which he is writing."—Times Literary Supplement
