Mid-Victorian Generation - 1846-1886

About the author

Theodore K. Hoppen is Professor in History at the University of Hull.

Summary

Covering the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill, this book identifies and defines three defining themes - established industrialism, multiple national identities and the interlocking spheres forming public culture.

Additional text

Professor Hoppen has produced a very impressive study reflecting...new ways of thinking...a balanced, rounded and extremely engaging account of Britain between the repeal of the Corn Laws and the failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. As well as offering a wide-ranging survey of the period, Hoppen's study is valuable because it does not mask areas of disagreement between historians in an attempt to provide synthesis. This is an exceptionally imaginative and absorbing book which reveals how those who may not have qualified as voters had an impact on the debate on the legitimacy of the state. Specialists will admire it; undergraduates may find it hard to put down.

Product details

• Authors: K. Theodore Hoppen, K. Theodore (Professor in History Hoppen, K.Theodore Hoppen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1998
• EAN: 9780198228349
• ISBN: 978-0-19-822834-9
• No. of pages: 808
• Series: New Oxford History of England; New Oxford History of England
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries