Victorious Century. The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 (Cannadine David) ; Penguin, 2018
Автор(ы): Cannadine David;
Издатель: Penguin
EAN: 978-0-14-101913-0
ISBN: 978-0-14-101913-0
ID: SKU194358
Добавлено: 15.08.2021
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МАЙШОП 5/5 | Один из первых книжных интернет-магазинов, работающий с 2002 года | |
Описание
A superbly told history of Victoria's Britain in all its grandeur and misery, triumph and doubt.
To live in Victorian Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. There were revolutions in transport, communication, work; cities grew vast; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one.
David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of Victorian Britain. This was a country which saw itself at the summit of the world. And yet it was a society also convulsed by doubt, fear and introspection. Repeatedly, politicians and writers felt themselves to be staring into the abyss and what is seen as an era of irritating self-belief was in practice obsessed by a sense of its own fragility, whether as a great power or as a moral force. Victorious Century catches the relish and humour of the age, but also the dilemmas of a kind with which we remain familiar today.
To live in Victorian Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. There were revolutions in transport, communication, work; cities grew vast; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one.
David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of Victorian Britain. This was a country which saw itself at the summit of the world. And yet it was a society also convulsed by doubt, fear and introspection. Repeatedly, politicians and writers felt themselves to be staring into the abyss and what is seen as an era of irritating self-belief was in practice obsessed by a sense of its own fragility, whether as a great power or as a moral force. Victorious Century catches the relish and humour of the age, but also the dilemmas of a kind with which we remain familiar today.
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О книге
Автор(ы) | Cannadine David |
Издатель | Penguin |
ISBN | 978-0-14-101913-0 |
Год издания | 2018 |
Серия | Penguin History of Britain |
Обложка | мягкая обложка |
Кол-во страниц | 624 |
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