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 mid-twentieth-century Britain. This title will be of interest to students of history.
List of Illustrations and Tables; Acknowldgements;
1. Walter L.
Arnstein, Teacher and Mentor Michael H. Shirley and Todd E. A. Larson
2.
Walter L. Arnstein: A Collegial and Personal Appreciation Paul W. Schroeder
3. The Prince of Wales: Caricature, Charivari, and the Politics of Morality
Tamara Hunt
4. Advertising the Army: Political Aesthetics and British Army
Fashion, 1815-1855 Scott Hughes Myerly
5. Free Trade Radicals, Education, and
Moral Improvement in Early Victorian England Richard F. Spall, Jr
6.
Chartists After Christian: Reynolds Newspaper and Mid-Victorian Political
Reform Michael H. Shirley
7. A Whig Private Secretary is in itself fatal:
Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Derby, Party Politics and Naval Administration, 1852
John Beeler
8. Debtor to the Greeks and the Barbarians: Religious
Periodicals and their Influences in the Victorian Prelude Marsh Wilkinson
Jones;
9. Pyrrhic Victory? The Bismark Myth and the Congress of Berlin in the
British Reviews Press, 1878-79 Todd E. A. Larson
10. The London Missionary
Societys Mongolian Missions: British Insights into the great Game In Asia
Helen S. Hundley
11. The Nineteenth-Century British Townscape and the Return
of the Market Place to Victorian History James Schmiechen
12. Cinema and
their Managers Depression England: A Social Function Stephen Shafer
13. I
used to take her to the doctors and get the proper thing: Twentieth-Century
Health Care Choices in Lancashire Working-Class Communities Lucinda McCray
Beier; Walter L. Arnstein: A Bibliography; Index
Edited by Shirley, Michael H.; Larson, Todd E. A.
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