The Amateur and the Professional
Subtitle: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 18381886
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780521530507
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; History: World; History; History - General History; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; History-Europe - Great Britain - General
First sentence: Paradox lay at the heart of Victorian culture and nowhere was it more apparent than in their simultaneous adulation of their own age and their reverent fascination for the past.