The Transformation of Britain, 1830-1939

Mingay, G. E

ISBN 10: 071009762X / ISBN 13: 9780710097620

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986

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Hardcover with dust jacket, published by Routledge, 1990. An examination of the cultural shift in Britain from a rural society to an urban one, a staggering shift in the cultural frame work of the society that laid the foundation for modern Britain. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. 235 pages with Index, illustrated throughout with black and white photos, charts and maps. Dark green cloth covered boards with the title and author's name imprinted on the spine in gold. All lettering is crisp and not rubbed. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. This is not a remainder, not a library discard. One very small stain on the top edge of the front flap of the dust jacket is the extent of wear, about 1/4 inch both across and wide, only appears on the dust jacket not on the boards or text pages. There are a couple dots of foxing to the top edge of the text block. Attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Transformation of Britain, 1830-1939
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071009762X
• ISBN 13: 9780710097620
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics
  • England
  • European History

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Synopsis

In a little over a century, between 1830 and 1939, both the landscape and society of Britain were a rural world became an urban (and suburban) world. The pace and scale of change a vast surge in population was housed in cities and towns, while the countryside became stagnant and neglected. Industry and trade demanded communication and transport on an unparalleled scale, and a network of railways spread into almost every corner of the British Isles. Technology was applied not on a local and limited scale, as in earlier centuries, but in every facet of life. Motor cars, radio and cinema, new and better means of waging war-were all part of this technological transformation of what had been a predominantly traditional society. By 1939, Britain had won and then lost the industrial supremacy of the world; the colonial empire gained over the same period was shortly to go the same way.