Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67University of Chicago Press, 1975. ápr. 15. - 312 oldal 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. "For expounding this theme, this interaction of event and personality, Mr. Briggs is abundantly and happily endowed. He is always readable, often amusing, never facetious. He is widely read and widely interested. He has a sound historic judgment, and an unfailing sense for what is significant in the historic sequence and what is merely topical. . . . Above all, he is in sympathy with the age of which he is writing."—Times Literary Supplement |
Tartalomjegyzék
Introduction | 1 |
The Crystal Palace and the Men of 1851 | 15 |
John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War 22 88 | 52 |
Trollope Bagehot and the English Constitution | 87 |
Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work | 116 |
Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools | 140 |
Robert Applegarth and the TradeUnions | 168 |
The Carpenters Emblem | 174 |
Robert Lowe and the Fear of Democracy | 232 |
Robert Lowe | 240 |
Benjamin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark | 264 |
Disraeli and Gladstone | 272 |
The many heads of Disraeli | 288 |
Epilogue | 296 |
Bibliographical Note | 300 |
Acknowledgments | 305 |
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