Victorious Century : The United Kingdom, 1800-1906

Author(s): Cannadine, Mr David,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 06/09/2018,
Pagination: 624 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd,
Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,
Book Classification: British & Irish history, Social & cultural history,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780141019130

Description:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018.

To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. There were revolutions in transport, communication, work; cities grew vast; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one.

In his dazzling new book David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of the British nineteenth century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice. This was a country which saw itself at the summit of the world. And yet it was a society also convulsed by doubt, fear and introspection.

Victorious Century reframes a time at once strangely familiar and yet wholly unlike our own.