Victorian People

Victorian People
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89096158035
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Book Synopsis Victorian People by : Asa Briggs

Download or read book Victorian People written by Asa Briggs and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1965 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 always readable, often amusing, never facetious. He is widely read and widely interested. He has a sound historic judgment, and an unfailing sense for what is significant in the historic sequence and what is merely topical. . . . Above all, he is in sympathy with the age of which he is writing.--Times Literary Supplement


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