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BBC Shop: History of Britain (Vol 3): The Fate of Empire: 1776-2001
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"While Britain was losing an empire it was finding itself". Award-winning historian Simon Schama completes his monumental three-volume history of Britain, which accompanies the acclaimed television epic. In The Fate of Empire, Schama illuminates the period of British history from 1770 to 2000 through a variety of historical themes and key British characters. Britain never had the kind of revolution experienced by France in 1789, but it did come close. In the mid-1770s the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy. Re-discovering England's wildernesses, the intellectuals of the 'Romantic generation' also discovered the plight of the common man, turning Nature into a revolutionary force. This power of the cult of nature enabled two things - to make man see and explore Britain in a way unimaginable a generation before, and to pit democrat cosmopolitans against patriots. From the politics of wildness, A History of Britain moves to the Victorian era and it's question of how to create a better world in the face of upheaval. As the Victorian era began, the massive advance of technology and industrialisation was rapidly reshaping both the landscape and the social structure of the whole country. To a much greater extent than ever before women would take a centre stage role in shaping society. From political campaigners like Harriet Stuart Mill to writers like Elizabeth Gaskell whose novels highlighted the plight of the industrial working class and Mary Seacole, the heroine and nurse of the Crimea War, 'Victoria's sisters' would from now on ensure that it was no longer purely a man's world. With industrialisation came the burgeoning of the British Empire, and in The Fate of Empire Schama charts the chequered life of the liberal empire from Ireland to India - the promise of civilisation and material betterment and the delivery of coercion and famine. By the late nineteenth century, Liberals realised that they had to abandon their strict adherence to laissez-faire economics or lose the working-class support to Conservative populism and renewed socialist radicalism. In the final chapter of Schama's history, he examines the overwhelming presence of the past in the British twentieth century and the struggle of leaders to find a way to make a different national future. As towering figures of the twentieth century, Churchill and Orwell in their different ways exemplify lives spent brooding, and acting on that imperial past, and most movingly for us, both writing and shaping it's history. Walking through the pages of A History of Britain is a succession of big and bold characters that illuminate these historical themes. Wordsworth, Burke, Queen Victoria are all here. But also the less known lives such as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman doctor, 'Mother' Mary Seacole, the forgotten Caribbean nurse and heroine of the Crimea War, and Dadabhai Naoroji, who, in c.1890, became the first Asian MP. Chapter breakdown: Chapter One: Forces of Nature: The Road to Revolution Chapter Two: Forces of Nature: The Road Home Chapter Three: The Queen and the Hive Chapter Four: Wives, Daughters, Widows Chapter Five: Food or Freedom Chapter Six: The Two Winstons Chapter Seven: Epilogue
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