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دانلود کتاب The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914
دانلود کتاب عصر انحطاط: بریتانیا 1880 تا 1914
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The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914
ویرایش:
نویسندگان: Simon Heffer
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ISBN (شابک) : 1847947425, 9781847947420
ناشر: Random House Books
سال نشر: 2017
تعداد صفحات: 0
زبان: English
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The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is
of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She
commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce.
Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties
their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding
range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and
self-confidence is familiar from Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance
marches, newsreels of George V’s coronation and the London’s
great Edwardian palaces.
Yet things were very different below the surface. In The Age of
Decadence Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of
late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite
the nation’s massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers
in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial
destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms
prompted the twentieth century’s gravest constitutional crisis
and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British
history. He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to
millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female
suffragists’ public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a
ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He
analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the
sensationalist press and the science fiction of H. G. Wells,
but also the Arts and Crafts of William Morris and the
nostalgia of A. E. Housman. And he concludes with the crisis
that in the summer of 1914 threatened the existence of the
United Kingdom – a looming civil war in Ireland.
He lights up the era through vivid pen-portraits of the great
men and women of the day – including Gladstone, Parnell,
Asquith and Churchill, but also Mrs Pankhurst, Beatrice Webb,
Baden-Powell, Wilde and Shaw – creating a richly detailed
panorama of a great power that, through both accident and
arrogance, was forced to face potentially fatal challenges.
