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Author:
Heffer, Simon, author.
Title:
High minds : the Victorians and the birth of modern Britain / Simon Heffer.
Edition:
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publisher:
Pegasus Books,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
xvii, 878 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Subject:
Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901.
Notes:
Reprint. Originally published: London : Random House, 2013. Includes bibliographical references (pages 821-856) and index.
Contents:
Prologue: Dr. Arnold of Rugby -- part I. The condition of England: The angry forties : agitation and riot ; Noblesse oblige : politics and the aristocracy ; The ascent of the bourgeosie : radicalism and the end of the corn laws ; Chartism : the rise of working class politics -- part II. The Victorian mind. The Godly mind : national apostasy and the Victorian church ; The doubting mind : struggles in the sea of faith ; The rational mind : intellectuals and the growth of secularism ; The political mind : high principle and low ambition ; The progressive mind : the great exhibition and its legacy ; The heroic mind : Albert and the cult of the great man -- part III. The transformation of Britain: The leap in the dark : reform and the coming of democracy ; Broadening minds : the battle for education ; The end of privilege : inventing the meritocracy ; The rights of women : divorce, the vote and education -- part IV. The birth of the modern: The pursuit of perfection : Victorian intellectuals and the new Britain ; Doing good : philanthropists and the humane impulse ; The way we live now : the creation of the Victorian city ; A glimpse of the Gothic : founding a national style ; The reforming mind : Parliament and the advance of civilisation -- Epilogue.
ISBN:
1643139177
9781643139173
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1259045854
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

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