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_aHeffer, Simon, _eauthor. |
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_aThe age of decadence : _ba history of Britain : 1880 to 1914 / _cSimon Heffer. |
| 250 | _aFirst Pegasus Books cloth edition. | ||
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_aNew York : _bPegasus Books, _c2021. |
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| 264 | 4 | _c©2021 | |
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_axii, 897 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates ; _c24 cm |
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_atext _btxt _2rdacontent |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 827-838) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction -- Prologue: Swagger -- The world of the late Victorians. The decline of the Pallisers ; The rise of the Pooters ; The worker's struggle -- Coming storms. Imperial tensions ; Ireland ; The death of God ; The civilising mission ; Protecting women -- Public debates, public doubts. The future ; Nostalgia ; Imperial consequences ; Art and life ; The uses of literacy -- Strife. Men and power ; Dukes and dreadnoughts ; The great unrest ; Votes for women ; Rebellion -- Envoi: One afternoon of heat. | |
| 520 | _a"The folk memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V's coronation and the London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet things were very different below the surface. In 'The Age of Decadence' Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain"--Provided by publisher. | ||
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_aGreat Britain _xHistory _yVictoria, 1837-1901. _929680 |
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_aGreat Britain _xHistory _yEdward VII, 1901-1910. _9121133 |
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_aGreat Britain _xHistory _yGeorge V, 1910-1936. _9113264 |
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_aGreat Britain _xSocial conditions _y19th century. _9212500 |
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_aGreat Britain _xSocial conditions _y20th century. _9119959 |
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_aAnnals and chronicles. _2lcgft |
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