This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past. The Daily Telegraph
Spanning four volumes and many centuries of history, from Caesar's invasion of Britain to the start of World War I, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples stands as one of Winston Churchill's most magnificent literary works. Begun during Churchill's 'wilderness years' when he was out of government, first published in 1956 after his leadership through the darkest days of World War II had cemented his place in history and completed when Churchill was in his 80s, it remains to this day a compelling and vivid history. In The Age of Revolution - the third volume of Churchill's history - Churchill charts the rise of Great Britain as a world power and the long rivalry with France, the shadow of the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon and his defeat at Waterloo. The volume also covers the rise of the American colonies, their triumphant overthrow of British rule in the War of Independence and the first great generation of American leaders: Washington, Adams and Jefferson.
Автор: Michael Barthorp Название: The British Army on Campaign (1) ISBN: 0850457939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780850457933 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 1929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers a collection of original studies on Xunzi, a leading classical Confucian thinker, and on other aspects of Chinese philosophy. While each essay individually makes an important contribution to the study of Chinese philosophy, the book as a whole represents a major scholarly achievement. Throughout, the methodology exemplifies a constructive interpretation and analysis of major concepts.
Автор: Snell Название: Rival Jerusalems ISBN: 0521121221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521121224 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8078.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This pioneering book offers a complete geography of religion in England and Wales, and includes exhaustive analyses of many religious questions and debates. It describes the geographical patterns of the major English and Welsh religious denominations, and their importance for political history, before tackling a range of further key issues.
Автор: Shirley, Michael , Larson, Todd Название: Splendidly Victorian ISBN: 1138702811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138702813 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 3673.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This title was first published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, arguably introduced more students to British history than any other American historian. This collection of essays by some of his former students celebrates Arnstein's inspirational teaching and writing with surveys and analyses of various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Nineteenth-century topics covered in the volume include early Victorian caricatures and the thin legal lines that they often trod; British Army fashion and its contribution to Royal spectacles; Free Trade Radicals and how they viewed educational reform and moral progress; the persistence of Chartist ideology following the failure of the movement in 1848; Disraeli and Derby's involvement with the Navy's administration; religious periodicals and their influence; the myth of Bismarck as an honest broker of peace and the subsequent collapse of the myth as a later source of enmity in Anglo-German relations; the powerful mystique evoked back in England by the London missionary societies Mongolian; missions; Victorian urban planning and the re-introduction of the market place.
Автор: Korda, Andrea Название: Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London ISBN: 1472432983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472432988 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship among the British laboring classes, reformers pioneered schools of design, copyright protections, and spectacular displays of industrial and imperial wares, most notably the Great Exhibition of 1851. Their efforts culminated with the establishment of the South Kensington Museum, predecessor to the Victoria and Albert Museum, which stands today as home to the world’s foremost collection of the decorative and applied arts. Kriegel’s identification of the significant links between markets and museums, and between economics and aesthetics, amounts to a rethinking of Victorian cultural formation.
Drawing on a wide range of sources, including museum guidebooks, design manuals, illustrated newspapers, pattern books, and government reports, Kriegel brings to life the many Victorians who claimed a stake in aesthetic reform during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The aspiring artists who attended the Government School of Design, the embattled provincial printers who sought a strengthened industrial copyright, the exhibition-going millions who visited the Crystal Palace, the lower-middle-class consumers who learned new principles of taste in metropolitan museums, and the working men of London who critiqued the city’s art and design collections—all are cast by Kriegel as leading cultural actors of their day. Grand Designs shows how these Victorians vied to upend aesthetic hierarchies in an imperial age and, in the process, to refashion London’s public culture.
Описание: Frances Knight shows how late Victorian Britain reacted to the bold agendas being set by the thinkers of the fin de siecle
Автор: Spinner Jr., Thomas J. Название: George joachim goschen ISBN: 0521089107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521089104 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5386.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The career of George Joachim Goschen, the man whom Lord Randolph Churchill forgot, illuminates many of the problems faced by the British ruling classes in the late nineteenth century: a Liberal in 1863, Goschen entered the twentieth century a Conservative.
Автор: Kristine Ottesen Garrigan Название: Victorian Scandals: Repressions Of Gender And Class ISBN: 0821410199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821410196 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 6692.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the popular mind, the word \u201cVictorian\u201d still evokes associations of repression, hypocrisy, and prudery. We persist in thinking that the Victorians were perpetually shocked by everything from minor breaches of domestic decorum to ministry-toppling causes c\u00e9l\u00e8bres. In examining various Victorian scandals, some familiar, some more obscure, these essays provide lively discussion and diverse points of view on the context, nature, and function of \u201cscandal\u201d in Victorian society, particularly in terms of gender and class.
Topics covered include: - women as both victims and beneficiaries of the Victorian legal establishment, demonstrated through divorce petitions, cases of wrongful confinement, and a highly publicized breach of promise suit - the actress in contemporary pornography - the effects on male hegemony of programs of higher education for women - ambivalent reactions to biographies of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot and to Julia Margaret Cameron’s \u201cennobled\u201d photographic portraits - the surprising toleration of gambling and infanticide.
The afterword examines the diverse responses to scandalous behavior from the perspectives of recent critical theory.
Taken as a whole, Victorian Scandals illustrates the pervasive role of the contemporary press in rendering private conduct a subject of public fascination and suggests the need to expand the definitions, functions, and interpretations of \u201cscandal\u201d in Victorian society.
Автор: Temperley Название: The Victorian Age in Politics, War and Diplomacy ISBN: 110753691X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107536913 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Harold Temperley (1879–1939) was a British historian who specialised in diplomatic history. Originally published in 1928, this book on the Victorian period was based upon his Cambridge University inaugural lecture, delivered at the Local Lectures Summer Meeting for that year. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Victorian Britain, political history and the development of British foreign policy.
Автор: Inge Название: The Victorian Age ISBN: 1107495091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107495098 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2693.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1922, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for that year, which was delivered by William Ralph Inge at the University of Cambridge. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Inge, British history and the Victorian period.
Автор: Murney Gerlach Название: British Liberalism and the United States ISBN: 033379009X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333790090 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text deals with the transatlantic and international content of liberalism in the Victorian age. Gerlach considers the transatlantic thought of prominent contemporary figures such as William Gladstone, John Morley, William Harcourt and Andrew Carnegie.
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