English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850 1980
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Short description/annotationDrawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society.Main descriptionEngland was the world's first great industrial nation. Yet the English have never been comfortable with industrialism. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society. His work reveals a pervasive middle- and upper-class frame of mind hostile to industrialism and economic growth. From the middle of the nineteenth century to the present, this frame of mind shaped a broad spe...
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Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society.
Main description
England was the world's first great industrial nation. Yet the English have never been comfortable with industrialism. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society. His work reveals a pervasive middle- and upper-class frame of mind hostile to industrialism and economic growth. From the middle of the nineteenth century to the present, this frame of mind shaped a broad spectrum of cultural expression, including literature, journalism, and architecture, as well as social, historical, and economic thought. Now in a new edition, Wiener reflects on the original debate surrounding the work and examines the historiography of the last twenty years. Written in a graceful and accessible style, with reference to a broad range of people and ideas, this book will be of interest to all readers who wish to understand the development - and predicament - of modern England.
Table of contents:
Part I. The Setting: 1. The Janus face of modern English culture; 2. Victorial society: accommodation and absorption; Part II. A World View: 3. A counter-revolution of values; 4. The 'English way of life'(?)33;; 5. The wrong path(?)33;; Part III. Toward Behavior: 6. Images and politics; 7. The gentrification of the industrialist; Part IV. Industrialism and English Values: 8. An overview and an assessment.
Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society.
Main description
England was the world's first great industrial nation. Yet the English have never been comfortable with industrialism. Drawing upon a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence to modern industrial society. His work reveals a pervasive middle- and upper-class frame of mind hostile to industrialism and economic growth. From the middle of the nineteenth century to the present, this frame of mind shaped a broad spectrum of cultural expression, including literature, journalism, and architecture, as well as social, historical, and economic thought. Now in a new edition, Wiener reflects on the original debate surrounding the work and examines the historiography of the last twenty years. Written in a graceful and accessible style, with reference to a broad range of people and ideas, this book will be of interest to all readers who wish to understand the development - and predicament - of modern England.
Table of contents:
Part I. The Setting: 1. The Janus face of modern English culture; 2. Victorial society: accommodation and absorption; Part II. A World View: 3. A counter-revolution of values; 4. The 'English way of life'(?)33;; 5. The wrong path(?)33;; Part III. Toward Behavior: 6. Images and politics; 7. The gentrification of the industrialist; Part IV. Industrialism and English Values: 8. An overview and an assessment.