1. People of the book -- 2. Age of steam -- 3. Disease and drudgery -- 4. Lord John and Sir Robert -- 5. Patriotism prevails -- 6. Lord Pumicestone -- 7. The people's darling -- 8. Leap in the dark -- 9. Towards a modern state (1) -- 10. Towards a modern state (2) -- 11. Beaconsfieldism and Midlothianism -- 12. Cloud in the west -- 13. The Great Depression : fact and fiction -- 14. Death of liberal England -- 15. Birth of the twentieth century -- 16. Imperial pre-eminence -- 17. African scramble -- 18. A clash of empires -- 19. Recessional -- 20. New ways for old -- 21. Queen and mother
Summary
Annotation This clear and thought-provoking examination of the years from Queen Victoria's accession to the close of the century, pays particular attention to the post-1875 period
