The first source book to track the role the British empire played in domestic politics, social attitudes and intellectual and cultural life at home, this volume

The first source book to track the role the British empire played in domestic politics, social attitudes and intellectual and cultural life at home, this volume

In the last twenty years one of the classical arenas for British historical writing - the politics of Victorian Britain - has ceased to be an obvious or self-ev

Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of an era of dramatic change, combining broad survey with close analysis and introducing students to the cr

Late Victorian Britain witnessed three challenges to its eighteenth-century Republican Ideal: democracy, capitalism and ethnic nationalism. Calling upon the lan