Industrialisation and Society
Subtitle: A Social History, 1830-1951
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 11, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780415187787
First sentence: Generations of students studying the subject of the Victorian inheritance have been concerned to assess the significance of the new electoral system brought in by the Reform Act, 1832, the reform of the old poor law in 1834, the evangelical revival, and the increasing controversy over the corn laws which culminated in their repeal in 1846.