High Minds: The Victorians And Birth Of Modern Britain Simon Heffer Windmill Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

Simon Heffer\ S New Book Forms An Ambitious Exploration Of The Making Victorian Age And Mind Britain In 1840S Was A Country Wracked By Poverty Unrest Uncertainty Where There Were Attempts To Assassinate Queen Her Prime Minister Ruling Class Lived Fear Riot Revolution 1880S It Confident Nation Progress Prosperity Transformed Not Just Industrialisation But Attitudes Politics Education Women Working That Should Have Changed So Radically Very Largely Work Astonishingly Dynamic High-Minded Group People – Politicians Philanthropists Writers Thinkers Who Matter Decades Fundamentally Remade Its Institutions Mindset Laid Foundations For Modern Society Traces Evolution British Democracy Shows How Early Laissez-Faire Lot Less Fortunate Turned Into Campaigns Improve Their Lives Prospects Analyses Birth Religion Science Even Such Aesthetic Issues As Taste Architecture Swept Broader Debates About Direction Take Process Heffer Looks At Deeds Major From Devout Principled Gladstone Unscrupulous Disraeli Intellectual Arguments Raged Among Matthew Arnold Thomas Carlyle Samuel Butler \ Great Projects\ Exhibition Albert Memorial Drawing Heavily On Previously Unpublished Documents He Offers Superbly Nuanced Insight Life Extraordinary Era Populated Our Forebears’ Pursuit Perfection Gave Σελίδες: 912 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm