"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 [nineteenth] century"--Publisher marketing.
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"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 [nineteenth] century"--Publisher marketing.
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Very good. 322 p. Audience: General/trade. Clean, lightly read copy in Very Good + condition. No marking or writing in the book-text is completely clean. Covers show only slight shelf wear / fading of color. Binding is firm.
