Forging of the Modern State - Early Industrial Britain, 1783-c.1870 Evans Eric J. Paperback
Forging of the Modern State - Early Industrial Britain, 1783-c.1870 Evans Eric J. Paperback In what has established itself as a classic study of Britain from the late eighteenth century to the…
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Forging of the Modern State - Early Industrial Britain, 1783-c.1870 Evans Eric J. Paperback
In what has established itself as a classic study of Britain from the late eighteenth century to the mid-Victorian period, Eric J. His book also explains how, and why, Britain was able to lay the foundations for what became the world's largest empire. Evans explains how the country became the world's first industrial nation.
The book ranges widely: across key political, diplomatic, social, cultural, economic and religious themes in order to convey the drama involved in a century of hectic, but generally constructive, change. Over the period covered by this book, Britain became the world's most powerful nation and arguably its first super-power.Economic opportunity and imperial expansion were accompanied by numerous domestic political crises which stopped short of revolution. Britain was still ruled by wealthy landowners in 1870 as it had been in 1783, yet the society over