The Victorian world. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Martin Hewitt.
• Other Names: Hewitt, Martin
• Contents: List of illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Introduction: Victorian Milestones, Martin Hewitt . PART I: THE WORLD ORDER. 2. The Great Arch of Empire Dane Kennedy . 3. The shrinking of the globe, Peter J. Hugill . 4. Patterns of industrialization, Emma Griffin . 5. Free Trade and its Enemies, Tony Howe, 6. The globalisation of culture, Patrick Brantlinger . 7. Human Traffic, Eric Richards . 8. Varieties of nationalism, Krishan Kumar . 9. Geopolitics and the Victorian Geopolitical Unconscious, Lauren M.E. Goodlad . PART 2: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY. 10. Entrepreneurialism or Gentlemanly Capitalism, Donna Loftus . 11. Money’s Worth: Morality, Class, Politic, Timothy Alborn . 12. Cultures of Commodities, Cultures of Things, Elaine Freedgood . 13. Urbanising experiences, Richard Dennis . 14. The culture of ‘environmentality’ and the exceptionality of the countryside, William Taylor 15. Was there a Victorian demographic transition? Alison Mackinnon . 16. 'Many little harmless and interesting adventures...: Gender and the Victorian City, Lynda Nead . 17. Disease and the Body, Pamela K. Gilbert . PART 3: POLITICS. 18. The Victorian State in its Imperial Contexts, Zoe Laidlaw .19. Voluntarism and self-help, Alex Tyrrell . 20. The performance of citizenship, Rohan McWilliam . 21. Race and Citizenship: Colonial Inclusions and Exclusions, Alan Lester . 22. ‘Private Law’ and the Laissez-Faire State, Michael Lobban . 23. Discipline, Barry Godfrey . PART 4: KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF. 24. Worlds of Victorian Religion, Jeffrey Cox . 25. The creed of science and its enemies, Bernard Lightman . 26. The Power of the Past: History and Modernity in the Victorian World, Billie Melman . 27. Education, Class and Culture, Robert Anderson . 28. The Photographic lens: graphs and the changing practices of Victorian economists, Harro Maas . 29. The antinomies of sage culture, William Whyte . PART 5: CULTURE. 30. Periodicalism, Graham Law. 31. The Global Common Reader, Jonathan Rose . 32. Victorian Theatricality, Kate Newey . 33. The Empire of Art, Alison Inglis . 34. Aural anxieties and the advent of modernity, John Picker . 35. Leisure: Merrie to Modern, Peter Bailey . PART 6: VARIETIES OF VICTORIAN. 36. India in the Victorian age – Victorian India? Margrit Pernau . 37. Victorianism at the frontier: the white settler colonies, Margot Finn . 38. Afro-Victorian Worlds, Simon Gikandi . 39. Learning the rules of the game: informal empire and the Mexican experience at Stonyhurst College, 1805-1920, Victor Macías-González . 40. The Victorian period of American History, Daniel Howe .
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (776 pages), (59 illustrations)
• Subjects: 941.081; HISTORY / World; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781135694593; 1135694591
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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