The Nineteenth Century
Subtitle: The British Isles 1815-1901 (Short Oxford History of the British Isles)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 17, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780198731436
First sentence: The Great Exhibition of 1851, held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, stands as a symbol of British economic power in the nineteenth century, a visible expression of the country's economic might.