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Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein book cover

1st Edition

Splendidly Victorian Essays in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein

By Michael Shirley, Todd Larson Copyright 2001
262 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, arguably introduced more students to British history than any other American historian. This collection of essays by some of his former students celebrates Arnstein's inspirational teaching and writing with surveys and analyses of... Read more
Contents: Walter L. Arnstein, teacher and mentor, The Editors; Walter L. Arnstein: a collegial and personal appreciation, Paul W. Schroeder; The Prince of Whales: caricature, Charivari, and the politics of morality, Tamara Hunt; Advertising the army: political aesthetics and British army fashion, 1815-1855, Scott Hughes Myerly; Free trade radicals, education and moral improvement in early Victorian England, Richard F. Spall, Jnr; Chartists after Chartism: Reynolds’s Newspaper and mid-Victorian political reform, Michael H. Shirley; A Whig Private Secretary is in itself fatal: Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Derby, Party Politics and Naval Administration, 1852, John Beeler; Debtor to the Greeks and the Barbarians: religious periodicals and their influence in the Victorian prelude, Marsh Wilkinson Jones; Pyrrhic victory?: the Bismarck myth and the Congress of Berlin in the British Review Press, 1878-79, Todd E. A. Larson; The London Missionary Society’s Mongolian missions: British insights into the Great Game in Asia, Helen S. Hundley; The 19th-century British townscape and the return of the market place to Victorian history, James Schmiechen; Cinemas and their managers in Depression England: a social function, Stephen Shafer; I used to take her to the doctor’s and get the proper thing: 20th-century health care choices in Lancashire working-class communities, Lucinda McCray Beier; Walter L. Arnstein: a bibliography; Index.

Biography

Michael H. Shirley who holds graduate degrees in law, education, and history, is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. His doctoral dissertation, On Wings of Everlasting Power: G.W.M. Reynolds and (Reynolds's Newspaper' 1848—1876, was researched and written under the direction of Walter L. Arnstein. Todd E.A. Larson received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. in History from the University of Cincinnati and is currently completing work on his doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the direction of Walter L. Arnstein. He has written extensively on the subject of computers and history, and is the co-author of The History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997).

'... Splendidly Victorian is a most fitting tribute to a distinguished historian.' Albion 'All the chapters are refreshingly innovative... They are characterized by the detached judgement and consciousness of the complexity of the past... a fitting tribute... demonstrating the range and distinctiveness of his intellectual influence.' English Historical Review
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