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Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-01 - Publisher: Headline Book Pub Limited
When Victoria came to the throne in 1837, Britain was on the brink of world supremacy in the production of iron, steel, and steam engines, and had seen an explo
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-03 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press
"Suppose that everything we think we know about the Victorians is wrong." So begins Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet, a compact and mind-bending whirlw
Language: en
Pages: 254
Pages: 254
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-03 - Publisher: Icon Books
'[An] insightful analysis of 19th-century futurism ... Morus's account is as much a cautionary tale as a flag-waving celebration.' - DUNCAN BELL, NEW STATESMAN
Language: en
Pages: 361
Pages: 361
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-09 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table
Language: en
Pages: 121
Pages: 121
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-31 - Publisher: Oxbow Books
The people who lived in England before the First World War now inhabit a realm of yellow photographs. Theirs is a world fast fading from ours, yet they do not a
