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100 1  Heffer, Simon,|eauthor. 
245 14 The age of decadence :|ba history of Britain : 1880-1914
       |h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cSimon Heffer. 
264  1 [United States] :|bPegasus Books,|c2021. 
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520    A richly detailed history of Britain at its imperial 
       zenith, revealing the simmering tensions and explosive 
       rivalries beneath the opulent surface of the late 
       Victorian and Edwardian eras.  The popular memory of 
       Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful,
       contented, orderly, and thriving country. Britain 
       commanded a vast empire: she bestrode international 
       commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from 
       civil liberties their grandparents only dreamed of and 
       enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The 
       mood of pride and self-confidence can be seen in Edward 
       Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George
       V's coronation, and London's great Edwardian palaces.  Yet
       beneath the surface things were very different 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 nostalgia of A. E. 
       Housman. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Electronic books. 
651  0 Great Britain|xHistory|yVictoria, 1837-1901. 
651  0 Great Britain|xHistory|yEdward VII, 1901-1910. 
651  0 Great Britain|xHistory|yGeorge V, 1910-1936. 
651  0 Great Britain|xSocial conditions|y19th century. 
651  0 Great Britain|xSocial conditions|y20th century. 
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