Response
Journal: Victorian Studies
Year: 2016

War and the Victorians:Response Michelle Tusan (bio) Victorianists have rediscovered war. The age of pax Britannica, it turns out, was not very peaceful after all. At least 196 “little wars” helped quadruple the size of the empire between 1837 and 1901 (Gooch 217). Big wars in Crimea and southern Africa also more or less bookended Victoria’s reign. Part of the reason for the myth of the long peace of the nineteenth century lies in contemporary understandings of Britain’s role in the wider world.