Format:
1 Online-Ressource (817 pages)
ISBN:
9780192543974
Series Statement:
New Oxford History of England
Content:
This, the third volume to appear in the New Oxford History of England, covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. Intermeshed with a detailed social and political analysis of the period, Theo Hoppen examines the influence of developments in religion, economics, science, and the arts. His magisterial study goes beyond coverage of England alone to investigate the distinct but interconnected histories of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Empire abroad
Content:
"Cover" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Dedication" -- "General Editor's Preface" -- "Preface" -- "Contents" -- "List of Plates" -- "List of Maps" -- "List of Tables" -- "Acknowledgements to Illustrations" -- "Introduction" -- "Part I: Society and the State" -- "1. The Agrarian Interest" -- "1. Agricultural Ups and Downs" -- "2. Rural Society" -- "2. The Middle Sort of People" -- "1. Numbers, Experiences, Anxieties" -- "2. Professional Persons" -- "3. Lower Borderlands" -- "4. Urban Contexts" -- "3. Workers by Hand" -- "1. Numbers, Work, Poverty" -- "2. Respectability, Adjustment, Autonomy" -- "3. Standards of Living" -- "4. The Nature of the State" -- "1. What Should the State Do?" -- "2. Centre and Localities" -- "3. What the State Did" -- "Part II: The Fabric of Politics" -- "5. Parties, Governments, Policies 1846-1855" -- "1. Corn Law Repeal" -- "2. Parties" -- "3. Governments" -- "4. Imperial and Foreign Affairs" -- "6. Crimean War and Indian Mutiny" -- "1. War against Russia" -- "2. Revolt in India" -- "7. Palmerston and After, 1855-1868" -- "1. Palmerston at Last" -- "2. Conservative Interlude" -- "3. Palmerston Again and Gladstone Rising" -- "4. Perturbations, 1865-1868" -- "5. Imperial and Foreign Affairs" -- "8. Reform and Electoral Politics" -- "1. Questions of Reform" -- "2. Reform Acts, 1867-1868" -- "3. Elections and the Electoral System" -- "Part III: Money and Mentalities" -- "9. A Maturing Economy" -- "1. Revolutions, Climacterics, Productivity" -- "2. Industries, Railways, Services" -- "3. A Trading Nation" -- "4. Investing at Home and Overseas" -- "5. No Longer at Full Steam?" -- "10. Living and Spending" -- "1. Families, Sex, Relationships" -- "2. Houses, Domesticity, Making Ends Meet" -- "3. Food and Clothes" -- "4. Shops, Pubs, Having a Good Time" -- "11. The Business of Culture" -- "1. Preliminary" -- "2. Literature
Content:
"3. Music" -- "4. Painting" -- "5. Architecture" -- "12. Godly People" -- "1. Denominational Landscapes" -- "2. Who They Were and What They Did" -- "13. The Evolutionary Moment" -- "1. Spencer, Darwin, and Others" -- "2. Progress, Dissolution, Hopes, Fears" -- "3. Matters of Belief" -- "4. Matters of Imagination" -- "Part IV: England and Beyond" -- "14. A British Nation? The Experiences of Scotland and Wales" -- "1. Britain: A Lop-Sided Affair" -- "2. Scotland: Society and Religion" -- "3. Wales: Religion and Culture" -- "4. Scotland: Identities, Regions, Land" -- "5. Wales: Land and Politics" -- "6. Ambivalent States" -- "15. The Island of Ireland" -- "1. Contexts" -- "2. The Great Famine" -- "3. A Post-Famine World: Land, Religion, Politics" -- "16. Gladstone and Disraeli 1868-1880" -- "1. Gladstone Sprinting" -- "2. Disraeli Strolling" -- "3. Foreign and Imperial Affairs" -- "4. Another Liberal Tide" -- "17. Shifts and Realignments 1880-1886" -- "1. Leaders, Parties, Policies" -- "2. Foreign and Imperial Affairs" -- "3. Irish Questions" -- "Maps" -- "Chronology" -- "List of Cabinets" -- "Bibliography
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198228349
Additional Edition:
Print version Hoppen, K. Theodore The Mid-Victorian Generation : 1846-1886 Oxford : Clarendon Press,c2000
Language:
English
