Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

The nineteenth century was a time of massive growth for Britain. In 1800 it was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half-Celtic. A century later it was largely urban and English. The effects of the Industrial Revolution caused cities to swell enormously. London, for example, grew from about 1 million people to over 6 million. Abroad, the British Empire was reaching its apex, while at home the world came to marvel at the Great Exhibition of 1851 with its crowning achievement--the Crystal Palace. Historians Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew present a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the social, economic, and political events that marked the era on which many believed the sun would never set.

Author: Christopher Harvie, H. C. G. Matthew
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/11/2005
Pages: 172
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 6.86h x 4.40w x 0.45d
ISBN13: 9780192853981
ISBN10: 0192853988
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- History | Modern | 19th Century

About the Author

Christopher Harvie is Professor of British and Irish Studies at Tübingen in Germany. Colin Matthew is editor of the Gladstone Diaries and author of an award-winning life of the Victorian statesman.