Martin Hewitt
With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses
political history, the history of ideas, cultural history and art history, The Victorian World offers a sweeping
survey of the world in the nineteenth century.
This volume offers a fresh evaluation of Britain and its
global presence in the years from the 1830s to the 1900s. It brings together
scholars from history, literary studies, art history, historical geography,
historical sociology, criminology, economics and the history of law, to explore
more than 40 themes central to an understanding of the nature of Victorian
society and culture, both in Britain and in the rest of the world. Organised
around six core themes – the world order, economy and society, politics,
knowledge and belief, and culture – The Victorian
World offers thematic essays that consider the interplay of domestic and
global dynamics in the formation of Victorian orthodoxies. A further section on
‘Varieties of Victorianism’ offers considerations of the production and
reproduction of external versions of Victorian culture, in India, Africa, the
United States, the settler colonies and Latin America. These thematic essays
are supplemented by a substantial introductory essay, which offers a
challenging alternative to traditional interpretations of the chronology and
periodisation of the Victorian years.
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