The Rise of Respectable Society a Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1990
Description:
This is a major study of Victorian society by one of our leading historians, the product of immensely wide reading and mature consideration. It offers a synthesis of the mass of new research material which has appeared since G. M. Young's Portrait of an Age and G. D. H. Cole's The Common People half a century ago... Each chapter is an excellent, authoritative and elegant rsum, and will be invaluable to the student and of much interest to what used to be called the intelligent lay reader.
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