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THE GOLDEN AGE
ESSAYS IN BRITISH SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY, 1850-1870 |
| By: |
Ian Inkster, Colin Griffin, Dr. Judith Rowbotham |
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Hardback |
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£32.99 |
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£29.69 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0754601145 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780754601142 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 December, 2000 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
The common view of the rise and relative fall of Britain in the 19th century is that Britain reigned supreme from 1851 until its gradual decline in 1870. These essays aim to challenge this stereotype of the golden age by concentrating on central aspects of social and industrial change. |
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In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end. In 1851 the Great Exhibition illustrated to the whole world the supremacy of industrial England. For the next twenty years Britain reigned supreme. From around 1870 Britain began to decline. Britain is now a second rate power with strong memories of its former supremacy. The above five sentences summarise a common view of the sequencing of Britain's rise and relative fall, a stereotype that is challenged and modified in the essays of The Golden Age. By concentrating on central aspects of social and industrial change authors expose the underpinnings of supremacy, its unsung underside, its tarnished gold. Major themes cover industrial and technological change, social institutions and gender relations in a period during which industry and industrialism were equally celebrated and nurtured. Against this background it is difficult to argue for any sudden decline of energy, assets or institution, nor for any significant move from an industrial society to one in which a hearty manufacturing was replaced by commerce and land, sensibility and artifice. |
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UK |
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Ashgate Publishing Limited |
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Returnable |
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