| Reviews |
| - '"Excellent surveys with many fresh insights",' - W H Fraser, Professor, University of Strathclyde
- 'The formula of encouraging experts to contribute a chapter on their own field of speciality results in the reader being treated convincingly to opinions and arguments abreast with current histography s| Bob Humphreys LSE, Social History Society Bulletin' -
- 'Matthew's Nineteenth Century comes as near to authoritative knowledge as is possible' - Richard Davenport-Hines, Times Literary Supplement,
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| Description | | - The first volume launching the major new Short Oxford History of The British Isles series which will become a core seller on History lists
- Series editor is Professor Paul Langford, Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford
- The contributors (who include dynamic younger figures as well as grandees) are all top names in the field and together make up an enterprising and formidable volume
- Not a narrative history, but a series of analytical surveys of society, politics, economics, culture, etc., each by a leading scholar at the cutting edge of historiography
- Chapters linked together by a substantial introduction and conclusion, by internal cross-references, and by a detailed chronological table
- Coherent, concise, comprehensive, authoritative, provocative and challenging: a book which can't be overlooked
- The period is one of the most lively studies amongst history courses internationally
- Includes Ireland as part of the British Isles
| The complete Short Oxford History of The British Isles
(series editor: Professor Paul Langford) will cover the history of the British Isles from the Roman Era to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues including society, economy, religion, politics, and culture head-on in chapters that will be at once wide-ranging surveys and
searching analyses. Each book is specifically designed with the non-specialist reader in mind; but the authority of the contributors and the vigour of the interpretations will make them necessary and challenging reading for fellow academics across a range of disciplines.
The nineteenth century was Britain's moment as a world power, not only in the narrow political sense, but with respect to a
vast range of activities and achievements. This book sets out to describe the force and complexity of that experience, and to cover, in an interdisciplinary way, the political, economic, and cultural history of the British Isles between 1815 and 1901. It looks at the Victorian economy, that transforming great engine of change, as well as Victorian public life as a cultural and political narrative
by including chapters on women and domesticity, the remarkable interplay of religion, intellect and science, art, architecture and the city, as well as literature, and the theatre and music of the time.
This collection of works by eminent historians brilliantly depicts the nations of the British Isles at the height of Britain's world power.
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| Contents |
Introduction
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Colin Matthew
Society and Economic Life
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Martin Daunton
Public Life and Politics
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Colin Matthew
The Empire and the World
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Andrew Porter
Gender, Domesticity, and Sexual Politics
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Janet Howarth
Religious and Intellectual Life
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Jane Garnett
Literature, Music, and the Theatre
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Kate Flint
Cities, Architecture and Art
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Andrew Saint
Conclusion: Fin-de-Siècle
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Colin Matthew
Further Reading
Chronology
Maps
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Edited by Colin Matthew, Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford
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