Victorian people : a reassessment of persons and themes, 1851-67 /

Victorian people : a reassessment of persons and themes, 1851-67 /

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Author / Creator:Briggs, Asa, 1921-2016, author.
Edition:Revised and illustrated ed.
Imprint:Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [1975]
©1972
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Great Britain -- Biography.
Great Britain.
Biographies.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11247226
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ISBN:9780226219479
022621947X
9780226074870
0226074870
9780226074887
0226074889
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 7, 2015).
Summary: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 al.
Other form:Print version: Briggs, Asa. Victorian People : A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1900 9780226074870
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Crystal Palace and the Men of 1851; 3. John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War; 4. Trollope, Bagehot, and the English Constitution; 5. Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work; 6. Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools; 7. Robert Applegarth and the Trade-Unions; 8. John Bright and the Creed of Reform; 9. Robert Lowe and the Fear of Democracy; 10. Benjamin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark; 11. Epilogue; Bibliographical Note; Acknowledgments; Index.

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