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  The Victorians (Paperback) By (author) A.N. Wilson

  

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  Short Description for The VictoriansIn a panoramic survey of the Victorian Age, this work describes the men and women who brought the modern age into being. The capitalist world was challenged by the ideas of such men as Karl Marx, William Morris and George Bernard Shaw - here they are. Here are also the lofty and famous and here too are the poor and the obscure.
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  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
  • Published: 04 September 2003
  • Format: Paperback 784 pages
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  • Categories: British & Irish History | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900 | Social & Cultural History
  • ISBN 13: 9780099451860 ISBN 10: 0099451867
  • Sales rank: 40,705

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• We live in the world which the Victorians created. The global village is Victorian village. Their two great inventions go hand in hand: industrial capitalism, and imperialism. Historians in the past have tended to describe these two great facts in ideological, rather than in personal terms. A.N. Wilson illuminates them through the people who built them. In a panoramic survey of the Victorian Age, he describes the men and women who brought the modern age into being. The capitalist world came into being because of actual businessmen, actual journalists, actual politicians. We meet them in the pages of this book. It was challenged by the ideas of such men as Karl Marx, William Morris and George Bernard Shaw - here they are. Here are also the lofty and famous - Prince Albert, Lord Palmerston, Charles Dickens, Gladstone and Disraeli - and here too are the poor and the obscure - doctors ministering to cholera victims, the man who got the British hooked on cigarettes. A.N. Wilson's book is a mosaic, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story - one which is still unfinished in our own day.