Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader

by Antoinette Burton

Book Overview

The first source book to track the role the British empire played in domestic politics, social attitudes and intellectual and cultural life at home, this volume is undergirded by a recognizable political chronology, emphasizing moments of major constitutional reform (1832, 1867) and imperial crisis (1857, 1865, 1882, 1886, 1899). The primary purpose of the reader is to introduce students to the intersections of 'home' and 'empire', so that the effects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312293356
• ISBN13: 9780312293352
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"