The Victorians [Paperback]

The nineteenth century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized, in scientific knowledge, and in nonreligious intellectual development. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented both capitalism and imperialism and were incomparably the richest, most important investors in the developing world. In this sense, England's position has strong resemblances to America's in the late twentieth century.A vivid portrait of Victorian Britain and Britons...the kind of book that turns people on to history.A dramatic, revisionist panorama of an age whose material triumphs and spiritual crises prefigure our own.