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The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized, in scientific knowledge, and in nonreligious intellectual development. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented both capitalism and imperialism and were incomparably the richest, most important investors in the developing world. In this sense, England's position has strong resemblances to America's in the late twentieth century. As one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and soldiers whose lives illuminate so grand and revolutionary a history: Darwin, Marx, Gladstone, Christina Rossetti, Gordon, Cardinal Newman, George Eliot, Kipling. Wilson's accomplishment in this book is to explain through these signature lives how Victorian England started a revolution that still hasn't ended.Product Identifiers
PublisherWW Norton & Co
ISBN-139780393325430
eBay Product ID (ePID)89484196
Product Key Features
Number of Pages738 Pages
Publication NameThe Victorians
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
AuthorA. N. Wilson
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height236 mm
Item Weight1020 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorA. N. Wilson