Description
| Product ID: | 9780141019130 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin History of Britain |
| Title: | Victorious Century |
| Subtitle: | The United Kingdom, 1800–1906 |
| Authors: | Author: David Cannadine |
| Page Count: | 624 |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, History, Social and cultural history, Industrialisation and industrial history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social & cultural history, Industrialisation & industrial history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1800 to c 1900, c 1900 - c 1914 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the definitive history, and will remain so for generations' A.N. WilsonTo live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. There were revolutions in transport, communication, work; cities grew vast; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one. In his dazzling new book David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of the British nineteenth century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice. This was a country which saw itself at the summit of the world. And yet it was a society also convulsed by doubt, fear and introspection. Victorious Century reframes a time at once strangely familiar and yet wholly unlike our own. SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-09-06 |