2nd Edition

The Age of Urban Democracy England 1868 - 1914

By Donald Read Copyright 1994
530 Pages
by Routledge

530 Pages
by Routledge

544 Pages
by Routledge

This ambitious survey covers all aspects of the period in which English society acquired its modern shape -- industrial rather than agricultural, urban rather than rural, democratic in its institutions, and middle class rather than aristocratic in the control of political power. For this revised edition the footnotes and bibliography have been fully updated, and the entire text has been reset in a... Read more
Introduction. Acknowledgements. Preface. Part One: The Victorian turning point, 1868-1880. Part Two: Fin de Siele, 1880-1900. Part Three: Edwardian England, 1901-1914. Further reading. Index.

Biography

Donald Read