小英格兰人:爱德华时代的英国 Little Englanders : Britain in the Edwardian Era

基本信息

Format:Hardback 400 pages, chapter opening b/w images

Publisher:Profile Books Ltd

Imprint:Profile Books Ltd

Edition:Main

ISBN:9781800815308

Published:22 Feb 2024

Weight:618g

Dimensions:147 x 234 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

1901 年维多利亚女王去世，一个时代结束了。 英国的统治地位遍及七大洲，其统治阶级比以往任何时候都更加富有。 许多人后来都记得接下来的十年左右是一个日不落帝国的漫长下午。 然而爱德华时代的人自己敏锐地意识到这个国家正处于不断变化的状态。 他们认为这场巨变将永远改变现代英国。

在《小英格兰人》中，阿尔文·特纳重新审视了爱德华时代，认为这是一个深刻的社会变革时期，其中包括妇女选举权和劳工运动的兴起、爱尔兰和布尔共和国的骚乱、议会丑闻和国内文化战争。 他通过音乐厅和男性选美比赛、真实的浴血黑帮和 1908 年夏季奥运会讲述了爱德华时代的故事。 在这部丰富多彩、详细且极其有趣的社会历史中，特纳表明，尽管维多利亚黄金时代已经成为过去，但现代英国的诞生才刚刚开始。

When Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was the end of an era. Britain's dominance stretched across seven continents and its ruling classes were wealthier than ever before. Many later remembered the decade or so that followed as the long afternoon of an empire where the sun never set. Yet the Edwardians themselves were acutely aware that the country was in a state of flux; the seismic change that they felt would transform modern Britain forever.

In Little Englanders, Alwyn Turner reconsiders the Edwardian era as a time of profound social change, with the rise of women's suffrage and the labour movement, unrest in Ireland and the Boer republics, scandals in parliament and culture wars at home. He tells the story of the Edwardians through music halls and male beauty contests, the real Peaky Blinders and the 1908 Summer Olympics. In this colourful, detailed and hugely entertaining social history, Turner shows that, though the golden Victorian age was in the past, the birth of modern Britain was only just beginning.

作者简介

阿尔文·特纳(Alwyn Turner)知名的作品是关于20世纪末后几十年英国的三部曲:《危机?什么危机?(2008),《喜乐!喜乐!》(2010)和《无阶级社会》(2013)。他曾出现在《全景》、《道德迷宫》、《今日》和《理查德与朱迪》节目中，并为《每日电讯报》、《卫报》和《金融时报》撰稿。

Alwyn Turner is best known for his trilogy of books about Britain in the last decades of the 20th century: Crisis? What Crisis? (2008), Rejoice! Rejoice! (2010) and A Classless Society (2013). He has appeared on Panorama, The Moral Maze, Today and Richard and Judy, and written for the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Financial Times.