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The Blurb On The Back:
To live in Victorian Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. 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 Victorian Britain. 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. Repeatedly, politicians and writers felt themselves to be staring into the abyss and what is seen as an era of irritating self-belief was in practice obsessed by a sense of its own fragility, whether as a great power or as a moral force. Victorious Century is an extraordinary enjoyable book - its author catches the relish, humour and theatrically of the age, but also the dilemmas of a kind with which we remain familiar today.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University and in this informative and easy to understand book he aims to set out a political history of Britain within an interlinked and international context but what makes it fascinating are the parallels with modern Britain (notably the Brexit issue with Ireland), which left me with an overriding impression that the more things change, the more they stay the same ...
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
To live in Victorian Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. 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 Victorian Britain. 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. Repeatedly, politicians and writers felt themselves to be staring into the abyss and what is seen as an era of irritating self-belief was in practice obsessed by a sense of its own fragility, whether as a great power or as a moral force. Victorious Century is an extraordinary enjoyable book - its author catches the relish, humour and theatrically of the age, but also the dilemmas of a kind with which we remain familiar today.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University and in this informative and easy to understand book he aims to set out a political history of Britain within an interlinked and international context but what makes it fascinating are the parallels with modern Britain (notably the Brexit issue with Ireland), which left me with an overriding impression that the more things change, the more they stay the same ...
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
