ENGLAND 1870-1914

ENSOR, R. C. K.

ISBN 10: 0198217056 / ISBN 13: 9780198217053

Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, OXFORD, 1975

About this Item

First reprint of first edition. Very good condition, 634 pages, top block edge even dark blue color. Some wear to spine ends as is usual.

Seller Inventory # 000497

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ENGLAND 1870-1914
• Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, OXFORD
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198217056
• ISBN 13: 9780198217053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Oxford & Cambridge
  • Military & History

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Synopsis

First published in 1936, this now-classic volume spans a time of rapid and far-reaching change in England--from Gladstone's first ministry, through the great contest with Disraeli, the Home Rule debate, the establishment of the Labour moverment, the Boer War, and the Liberal reforms of 1909-10, to the end of an era marked by the catastrophe of 1914. With stimulating analyses of social and economic developments as well as domestic and foreign policy, Ensor's account serves as a superb introduction to the period it covers and offers insight into the world of the 1930s in which it was written.

From the Back Cover

The date at which this volume ends, the outbreak of the European War, is the latest for which there is enough documentary evidence to write English history scientifically.When the guns of the Franco-Prussian war first thundered in earnest on 4 August 1870 a new epoch began, although Europe at the time did not know it. At midnight of the same day just forty-four years later the sands of Great Britain's ultimatum to Germany ran out; and with them the epoch ended. It is the task of the present volume to trace the history of England during these forty-four years.