Modernity and the Victorians lays out in sweeping terms an alternative conception of the political and social dynamics of the period, centred on the past, morality, and community. It offers a deliberately bracing challenge to a swathe of received wisdoms which, it asserts, have fatally misled students of modern Britain.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Author(s): Angus (Former Professor of Modern British History, Former Professor of Modern British History, Keble College, Oxford) Hawkins