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9780582369597

The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867

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  • ISBN13:

    9780582369597

  • ISBN10:

    0582369592

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1999-10-21
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The Age of Improvementhas long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research.  This second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord Briggs amongst others, since its original publication. The book stresses both the underlying unity and the rich variety of the age, and raises fundamental issues about a period of crucial change in British history - industrialisation, war, constitutional change and the attitudes of politicians towards it, political development, and, not least, society and culture.  In the background are the new economic powers based on the development of a coal and iron technology; in the foreground, new social and political problems and new ways of tackling them. The author also discusses perceptions of, and reactions to, changing circumstances, the influence of religion and science on national life, and changing styles in art and literature. The story ends, not with a full stop but with a question mark. Could improvement be maintained? Could balance and progress continue to be reconciled?

Author Biography

Asa Briggs (Lord Briggs of Lewes) was Professor of History at the newly founded University of Sussex in 1961; Vice Chancellor of Sussex from 1967 to 1976; and Provost of Worcester College, Oxford (1976-1991). He is President of the Social History Society and of the Victorian Society, and is a Fellow both of the British Academy and the American Academy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Period and Problems.

1. Economy and Society in 1870s.

2. Politics and Government on the Eve of the French Revolution.

3. The Impact of War.

4. The Politics of Transition.

5. Reform.

6. Social Cleavage.

7. Britain and the World Overseas.

8. The Balance of Interests.

9. Victorianism.

10. The Leap in the Dark

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