| 书目名称 | Society and Cultural Forms in Nineteenth Century England | | 编辑 | Simon Dentith | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Accessible introduction to nineteenthcentury British society and culture. Maps the cultural changes that took place during this period of extraordinary transformation | | 丛书名称 | Social History in Perspective | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The massive transformation of British society in the course of the nineteenth century is a commonplace of historical description. The transition from an industrialising but still predominantly agricultural society, with many of its traditional, vertically organised forms of social organisation still intact, to a predominantly urban, class-divided and recognisably modern society remains one of the striking transformations of social history, the prototype indeed for much of human history in the twentieth century. The simultaneous transformation of Britain, from one imperial power among others, to the most powerful imperium in history, is equally important, though the cultural manifestations of this imperial situation have been less intensively studied. .The social and cultural changes that accompanied the economic and political changes were no less remarkable - from a society of minority literacy to mass literacy; from an oligarchical social order ruled by a tiny elite, to one with some genuine democratic features where the rule of that elite was at least profoundly challenged; from a time when women were being excluded from the public sphere and the labour market, to the age of the | | 出版日期 | Textbook 1998Latest edition | | 关键词 | cultural change; cultural history; culture; England; gender; social history; society; Tradition; Transition | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27239-6 | | copyright | Simon Dentith 1998 |
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