Record details

• ISBN: 1565853911
• ISBN: 9781565853911
• Physical Description: 18 audio discs (approximately 1080 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm).
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., �2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Title and date from course guidebooks.

Compact disc.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliographical references in course guidebooks.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. The Victorian paradox -- Victoria's early reign: 1837-1861 -- The industrial revolution: 1750-1830 -- Railways and steamships -- Parliamentary reform and chartism -- The upper and middle class woman -- The working class woman -- The state church and evangelical revival -- The Oxford movement and catholicism -- Work and working class life -- Poverty and the "Hungry forties" -- Ireland, famine, and Robert Peel.

pt. 2. Scotland and Wales -- Progress and optimism -- China and the opium war -- Crimean war: 1854-1856 -- Indian Mutiny: 1857 -- Victorian Britain and the American civil war -- British in Africa: 1840-1880 -- Victorian literature I -- Art and music -- Science -- Medicine and public health -- Architecture.

pt. 3. Education -- Trade unions and the labour party -- Crime and punishment -- Gladstone and disraeli: 1865-1881 -- Ireland and home rule -- Democracy and its discontents -- The British in Africa: 1880-1901 -- Later Victorian literature -- Leisure -- Domestic servants -- Victoria after Albert: 1861-1901 -- The Victorian legacy.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lecturer, Patrick Allitt.

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Subject:

Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century.
Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century.

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