Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein

By Todd Larson and Michael H. Shirley

Book Overview

These essays in 19th- and 20th-century British history are collected together in honour of historian Walter L. Arnstein. Topics addressed include: Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Derby, party politics and naval administration; 20th-century health care choices in Lancashire working-class communities; the London Missionary Society's Mongolian Missions - British insights into the Great Game in Asia; religious periodicals and their influence in the Victorian prelude; the Bismarck myth and the Congress of Berlin in the British review press, 1878-1879; advertising the army - political aesthetics and British Army fashion, 1815-1855; and more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754602893
• ISBN13: 9780754602897
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"