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Between Waterloo and Gladstone's first ministry, Britain underwent a series of rapid and complex changes. At home, repression gave way to reform of the franchise, local government, education, poor relief, and the factory and legal systems. Further agitation arose in the 1840s over the CornLaws, the People's Charter, and the Irish Question. By the 1860s, Britain was able to bask in the glow of the mid-Victorian supremacy forged by its economic might and the foreign policy pursued by Castlereagh, Canning, and Palmerston, which maintained the balance of power and extended the colonialempire. Authoritative and incisive, this newly paperbacked volume in the Oxford History of England is a classic study of Britain in the ascendant.… (mais)
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A general survey of the achievements - and failures - of the English people over half a century between the victory of Waterloo and the first administration of Gladstone. Excellent.
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
I should like to give particular thanks to four of my friends for their help.
Preface.
In this second edition I have tried to take account of the work done on nineteenth-century English history in Great Britain and elsewhere since my volume was published in 1938.
Preface to the second edition.
Early on a September morning, in the second year of the nineteenth century, William Wordsworth saw the 'mighty heart' of London from Westminster Bridge, silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie, Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Introduction.
The tories, who were in office in 1815, kept their parliamentary majority until 1830.
I. The politics of the upper class and the reform of Parliament, 1815-32.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
This proud saying has been a challenge to successive generations of Englishmen; it may well be taken as a general verdict upon the age of reform.
Between Waterloo and Gladstone's first ministry, Britain underwent a series of rapid and complex changes. At home, repression gave way to reform of the franchise, local government, education, poor relief, and the factory and legal systems. Further agitation arose in the 1840s over the CornLaws, the People's Charter, and the Irish Question. By the 1860s, Britain was able to bask in the glow of the mid-Victorian supremacy forged by its economic might and the foreign policy pursued by Castlereagh, Canning, and Palmerston, which maintained the balance of power and extended the colonialempire. Authoritative and incisive, this newly paperbacked volume in the Oxford History of England is a classic study of Britain in the ascendant.
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