The Nineteenth Century : The British Isles 1815-1901.

Intro -- Title Page -- General Editor's Preface -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of contributors -- Introduction: the United Kingdom and the Victorian century, - -- Britain's moment in world history: progress and caution -- The first industrial nation: work and discipline -- Commodities and ownership -- 1851: the achievement of balance -- Free trade, civilization, and cooperation -- Established churches, the parish, and welfare -- London: an imperial city? -- A United Kingdom: unity and pluralism -- Differing views of the Union: politics and history -- Disunited nationalisms and the uses of history -- The weather -- Photography -- Political narratives -- Race and the Victorians -- Free movement and free speech -- The empire, sport, and middle-class education -- The working classes and 'advancement' -- Universities -- The nineteenth century in perspective -- 1: Society and economic life -- Martin Daunton -- The 'stationary state': the limits on growth in the early nineteenth century -- Remaking economic policy -- Breaking the bonds: growth in the second half of the nineteenth century -- Consumption and recreation -- Pollution and death -- Marriage, sexuality, and births -- Poverty and welfare -- The nature of an industrial economy -- Debating British economic performance -- 2: Public life and politics -- Railways and a national community -- Sport and national life -- Reform and political integration: franchises and the political community, 1815-1901 -- At the limits of integration: radicals, workers, Irish, and women -- The Union and the nations -- 'A nation of public speakers' -- Party ideologies, traditions, and governments: Tories and Whigs, 1815-52 -- Peelites, Liberals, Whigs, and Tories, 1852-74 -- Tories, Liberals, Liberal Unionists, 1874-1901 -- Late-Victorian politics -- Monarchy and the monarchs.

The Cabinet and the civil service -- Government expenditure, welfare, and taxation -- 'A kindlier people'? -- 3: The empire and the world -- The pattern of expansion -- Modes of imperial control -- Empire and the diffusion of British culture -- External challenges to the British position -- The defence of Britain's position -- 4: Gender, domesticity, and sexual politics -- The origins of Victorian domestic ideology -- Malthusianism and sexual morality -- Separate spheres and domesticity -- The male-breadwinner family and women's employment -- Gender and politics -- The woman question and the origins of the womenÌs movement -- Family law -- Education -- Prostitution -- Women's suffrage -- Patriarchy reaffirmed?--biology and empire -- Masculinity and late-Victorian sexual politics -- 5: Religious and intellectual life -- Interpretative approaches -- Religious and intellectual contexts -- The thinking public -- Religious groups -- Education -- Religious and intellectual paradigms -- Reason and faith: doubt and hypothesis -- Past, present, and future -- 6: Literature, music, and the theatre -- Literature: contexts, narratives, and issues of identity -- Welsh, Scottish, and Irish writing -- Theatre: melodrama and modernity -- Music and nationhood -- Subjectivity, multiplicity, and the fin-de-siecle -- 7: Cities, architecture, and art -- Cities -- Architecture -- Urban housing -- Public parks -- Classicism -- The Gothic Revival -- The English house -- The legacy of engineering -- Art -- Painting -- History painting -- Painters of modern life -- Late-Victorian painting -- Patronage and museums -- Sculpture -- The applied arts -- Conclusion: fin-de-siecle -- Further Reading -- Chronology -- Maps -- Index.

The Nineteenth Century describes the history of Victorian Britain not only in its political, Imperial, and economic aspects, but also in its cultural features by including chapters on women and domesticity, intellect and religion, art and architecture, and literature. The book brilliantly depicts the nations of the British Isles at the height of Britain's world power for both the student of modern history and the general reader.

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