Product Information
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 last century.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books Ltd
ISBN-139780140131338
eBay Product ID (ePID)95932487
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
Publication NameVictorian People: a Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851-1867
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year1990
TypeTextbook
AuthorAsa Briggs
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height199 mm
Item Weight260 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorAsa Briggs