ABSTRACT

This clear and thought-provoking examination of the years from Queen Victoria's accession to the close of the century, pays particular attention to the post-1875 period.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|21 pages

. People of the Book

chapter 2|16 pages

. Age of Steam

chapter 3|21 pages

. Disease and Drudgery

chapter 4|20 pages

. Lord John and Sir Robert

1832–46

chapter 5|21 pages

. Patriotism Prevails

1846–65

chapter 6|21 pages

. Lord Pumicestone

The Foreign Policy of Palmerston, 1830–41; 1846–51

chapter 7|29 pages

The People’s Darling

Palmerston as Prime Minister

chapter 8|15 pages

. Leap in the Dark

Disraeli and the Second Reform Act

chapter 9|21 pages

Towards a Modern State (1)

1850–85 (1) Social, Legal and Commercial

chapter 10|17 pages

Towards a Modern State (2)

1850–85 (2) Education and the Public Service

chapter 11|26 pages

. Beaconsfieldism and Midlothianism

Foreign and Colonial Policy 1868–85

chapter 12|30 pages

. Cloud in the West

chapter 13|18 pages

. The Great Depression: Fact and Fiction

chapter 14|19 pages

. Death of Liberal England

chapter 15|32 pages

. Birth of the Twentieth Century

chapter 16|23 pages

. Imperial Pre-Eminence

1837–80

chapter 17|21 pages

. African Scramble

1881–97

chapter 18|22 pages

. A Clash of Empires

1895–98

chapter 19|19 pages

. Recessional

1898–1902

chapter 20|19 pages

. New Ways for Old

1880–1900

chapter 21|21 pages

. Queen and Mother