Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction

By Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie, Henry Colin Gray Matthew, et al.

The nineteenth century was a time of massive growth for Britain. In 1800 it was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half-Celtic. A century later it was largely urban and English. The effects of the Industrial Revolution caused cities to swell enormously. London, for example, grew from about 1 million people to over 6 million. Abroad, the British Empire was reaching its apex, while at home the world came to marvel at the Great Exhibition of 1851 with its crowning achievement--the Crystal Palace. Historians Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew present a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the social, economic, and political events that marked the era on which many believed the sun would never set.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192853988
• ISBN13: 9780192853981
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 6.9"