Table of contents
List of illustrations;
Notes on Contributors;
Acknowledgements;
Preface;
1. Introduction: Victorian Milestones, Martin Hewitt;
PART I: THE WORLD ORDER;
2. The Great Arch of Empire Dane Kennedy;
3. The shrinking of the globe, Peter J. Hugill;
4. Patterns of industrialization, Emma Griffin;
5. Free Trade and its Enemies, Tony Howe;
6. The globalisation of culture, Patrick Brantlinger;
7. Human Traffic, Eric Richards;
8. Varieties of nationalism, Krishan Kumar;
9. Geopolitics and the Victorian Geopolitical Unconscious, Lauren M.E. Goodlad;
PART 2: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY;
10. Entrepreneurialism or Gentlemanly Capitalism, Donna Loftus;
11. Money's Worth: Morality, Class, Politic, Timothy Alborn;
12. Cultures of Commodities, Cultures of Things, Elaine Freedgood;
13. Urbanising experiences, Richard Dennis;
14. The culture of 'environmentality' and the exceptionality of the countryside, William Taylor;
15. Was there a Victorian demographic transition? Alison Mackinnon;
16. 'Many little harmless and interesting adventures...: Gender and the Victorian City, Lynda Nead;
17. Disease and the Body, Pamela K. Gilbert;
PART 3: POLITICS;
18. The Victorian State in its Imperial Contexts, Zoe Laidlaw;
19. Voluntarism and self-help, Alex Tyrrell;
20. The performance of citizenship, Rohan McWilliam;
21. Race and Citizenship: Colonial Inclusions and Exclusions, Alan Lester;
22. 'Private Law' and the Laissez-Faire State, Michael Lobban;
23. Discipline, Barry Godfrey;
PART 4: KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF;
24. Worlds of Victorian Religion, Jeffrey Cox;
25. The creed of science and its enemies, Bernard Lightman;
26. The Power of the Past: History and Modernity in the Victorian World, Billie Melman;
27. Education, Class and Culture, Robert Anderson;
28. The Photographic lens: graphs and the changing practices of Victorian economists, Harro Maas;
29. The antinomies of sage culture, William Whyte;
PART 5: CULTURE;
30. Periodicalism, Graham Law;
31. The Global Common Reader, Jonathan Rose;
32. Victorian Theatricality, Kate Newey;
33. The Empire of Art, Alison Inglis;
34. Aural anxieties and the advent of modernity, John Picker;
35. Leisure: Merrie to Modern, Peter Bailey;
PART 6: VARIETIES OF VICTORIAN;
36. India in the Victorian age - Victorian India? Margrit Pernau;
37. Victorianism at the frontier: the white settler colonies, Margot Finn;
38. Afro-Victorian Worlds, Simon Gikandi;
39. Learning the rules of the game: informal empire and the Mexican experience at Stonyhurst College, 1805-1920, Victor Macias-Gonzalez;
40. The Victorian period of American History, Daniel Howe.