Private Lives, Public Spirit: A Social History of Britain, 1870-1914

by JoseHarris (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $8.31

  This study examines the social history of Britain between 1870 and 1914. The author, while not underestimating World War I, demonstrates that many of the far-reaching social changes apparent afterwards actually had their origins in the 1870s and 1880s. The book identifies important trends and movements, providing an overview of late Victorian and Edwardian society. At the same time, a sense of idiosyncrasy, nuance and diversity is conveyed. While the period has often been regarded as one of great moral and political certainty, the author reveals the doubts and ambivalencies of contemporaries. She shows that in many respects Great Britain in this period was a ramshackle and amorphous society, characterized by a myriad of contradictory opinions.