Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67

by Asa Briggs

Book Overview

This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War," and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark," Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so conjures up an enviable picture of the progress and independence of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226074870
• ISBN13: 9780226074870
• Release Date: April 1975
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.