This title was first published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, arguably introduced more students to British history than any other American historian. This collection of essays by some of his former students celebrates Arnstein's inspirational teaching and writing with surveys and analyses of various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Nineteenth-century topics covered in the volume include early Victorian caricatures and the thin legal lines that they often trod; British Army fashion and its contribution to Royal spectacles; Free Trade Radicals and how they viewed educational reform and moral progress; the persistence of Chartist ideology following the failure of the movement in 1848; Disraeli and Derby's involvement with the Navy's administration; religious periodicals and their influence; the myth of Bismarck as an honest broker of peace and the subsequent collapse of the myth as a later source of enmity in Anglo-German relations; the powerful mystique evoked back in England by the London missionary societies Mongolian; missions; Victorian urban planning and the re-introduction of the market place.
This title was first published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, arguably introduced more students to British history than any other American historian. This collection of essays by some of his former students celebrates Arnstein's inspirational teaching and writing with surveys and analyses of various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.
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'... Splendidly Victorian is a most fitting tribute to a distinguished historian.' Albion 'All the chapters are refreshingly innovative... They are characterized by the detached judgement and consciousness of the complexity of the past... a fitting tribute... demonstrating the range and distinctiveness of his intellectual influence.' English Historical Review
Contents: Walter L. Arnstein, teacher and mentor, The Editors; Walter L.
Arnstein: a collegial and personal appreciation, Paul W. Schroeder; The
Prince of Whales¯: caricature, Charivari, and the politics of morality,
Tamara Hunt; Advertising the army: political aesthetics and British army
fashion, 1815-1855, Scott Hughes Myerly; Free trade radicals, education and
moral improvement in early Victorian England, Richard F. Spall, Jnr;
Chartists after Chartism: Reynoldss Newspaper and mid-Victorian political
reform, Michael H. Shirley; A Whig Private Secretary is in itself fatal¯:
Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Derby, Party Politics and Naval Administration, 1852,
John Beeler; Debtor to the Greeks and the Barbarians¯: religious periodicals
and their influence in the Victorian prelude, Marsh Wilkinson Jones; Pyrrhic
victory?: the Bismarck myth and the Congress of Berlin in the British Review
Press, 1878-79, Todd E. A. Larson; The London Missionary Societys Mongolian
missions: British insights into the Great Game¯ in Asia, Helen S. Hundley;
The 19th-century British townscape and the return of the market place to
Victorian history, James Schmiechen; Cinemas and their managers in Depression
England: a social function, Stephen Shafer; I used to take her to the
doctors and get the proper thing¯: 20th-century health care choices in
Lancashire working-class communities, Lucinda McCray Beier; Walter L.
Arnstein: a bibliography; Index.
Michael H. Shirley who holds graduate degrees in law, education, and history, is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois. His doctoral dissertation, On Wings of Everlasting Power: G.W.M. Reynolds and (Reynolds's Newspaper' 18481876, was researched and written under the direction of Walter L. Arnstein. Todd E.A. Larson received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. in History from the University of Cincinnati and is currently completing work on his doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the direction of Walter L. Arnstein. He has written extensively on the subject of computers and history, and is the co-author of The History Highway: A Guide to Internet Resources (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997).
