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2. Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire
by Jan Morris
This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, their ... More
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3. Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867
by University of Chicago Press (Creator), Catherine Hall
How did the English get to be English? In "Civilising Subjects," Catherine Hall argues that the idea of empire was at the heart of mid-nineteenth ... More
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4. Victorian Minds
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
A study of intellectuals in crisis and of ideologies in transition, elegant in style and thought. Few works that I know convey the excitement of the ... More
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6. The Victorian frame of mind, 1830-1870.
by Walter Edwards Houghton
"It is now forty years," Walter Houghton writes, "since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as ... More
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8. Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year
by Greg King
Power, pageantry, and pride Queen Victoria ruled the most powerful empire the world has ever seen, covering one fourth of the earth's land surface, ... More
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10. The Victorian Studies Reader
by Kelly Boyd (Editor), Rohan McWilliam (Editor)
Selected as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' in the 2008 CHOICE awards, The Victorian Studies Reader gathers together, in one volume, some of the key ... More
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15. Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
by Jan Morris
A second edition of the text originally published in 1973. This title is the first volume in the triptych by the same author, depicting the rise and ... More
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16. The History of England During the Reign of Victoria (1837-1907)
by Sidney Low
This 1907 work is still, in many ways, the best synthetic account of British history throughout the long Victorian era. The work offers both a ... More
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17. New Oxford History of England
by K Theodore Hoppen
This third volume in the New Oxford History of England covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's ... More
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23. What the Victorians Did for Us
by Adam Hart-Davis
When Victoria came to the throne in 1837, Britain was on the brink of world supremacy in the production of iron, steel, and steam engines, and had ... More
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