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Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians ... brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives"--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As she did in her critically acclaimed "The Last Days of the Romanovs," Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband--a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 739
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Victorian cultural legacies, especially art, science, and literature, are still celebrated. Contemporary Britain still lives with their transport systems, their social structures, and even their vocabularies. And we are increasingly aware of the ways their global actions shaped, for good and ill, the world around us. In this Very Short Introduction, Martin Hewitt offers a historical...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The folk memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press in association with Historic Royal Palaces
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This beautiful, extensively researched volume investigates the birth and early life of one of the most familiar British monarchs, Queen Victoria (1819-1901). A wealth of material, including many unexamined sources and unpublished images, sheds new light on Victoria's youth. Included here are portraits of the queen as princess, childhood diaries and sketchbooks, clothing, jewelery, and correspondence. Deirdre Murphy paints a vivid picture of Victoria's...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"American Midwest to Shanghai, from London to Tokyo, the 1850s was a decade of extraordinary change and upheaval: the world economy expanded fivefold; millions of families emigrated to the ends of the earth to carve out lives in the wilderness; new technologies revolutionized how people communicated; and railways cut across great continents. Steam ships, telegraphs, photographs and pharmaceuticals all proliferated. In Heyday, an epic story of global...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
During Queen Victoria's 64 year reign, no fewer than eight attempts were made on her life. Most threatening of all were the "dynamitards," who targeted Her Majest;y's Golden Jubilee, signaling the advent of modern terrorism with their publicly-focused attack. Ironically, it was these attacks that brought back attention and love to the monarchy which was waning and that popularity continues even today.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A delightful tour through the intimate details of life in Victorian England, told by a historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling and fanciful guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this charming, illustrative work celebrates the ordinary lives of the most perennially...
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