Nineteenth Century Britain - a very short introduction

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew were both brought up and educated in Edinburgh. Harvie went via the Open University to become Professor of British and Irish Studies at Tübingen in Germany, becoming a historian of modern Scotland and North Sea oil; from Oxford, Matthew edited the Gladstone Diaries, wrote an award-winning life of the Victorian statesman, and became Editor of the New Dictionary of National Biography in 1992. Colin Matthew died in 1999. Zusammenfassung First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability.

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• Authors: Harvi, Harvie, C Harvie, Christopher Harvie, Christopher (Professor of British and Irish Studies Harvie, Harvie Christopher, Matthew, C Matthew, Colin Matthew, Colin (formerly Professor of Modern History Matthew, H. C. G. Matthew, Matthew Colin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.08.2000
• EAN: 9780192853981
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285398-1
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 178 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Very Short Introductions; A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION; A Very Short Introductions; A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION; Very Short Introductions; A Very Short Introductions; Very Short Introduction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History; Non-fiction book > History > General, reference works; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain