English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit 1850 1980 2nd Edition by Martin Wiener 0521843766 9780521843768

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ISBN 10: 0521843766 

ISBN 13: 9780521843768

Author: Martin J. Wiener

England was the world’s first great industrial nation yet, paradoxically, the English have never been comfortable with industrialism. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Martin Wiener explores the English ambivalence towards modern industrial society. His work reveals a pervasive middle- and upper-class frame of mind hostile to industrialism and economic growth. From the middle of the nineteenth century to the present, this hostility shaped a broad spectrum of cultural expression, including literature, journalism, and architecture, as well as social, historical and economic thought. In this new edition Wiener reflects on the original debate surrounding his work and examines the historiography of the past twenty years.

Table of contents:

Part I. The Setting

1.The Janus face of modern English culture

2.Victorian society: accommodation and absorption

Part II. A World View
3. A counterrevolution of values
4. The ‘English way of life’?
5. The wrong path?

Part III. Toward Behavior
Introduction
6. Images and politics
7. The gentrification of the industrialist

Part IV. Industrialism and English Values
8. An overview and an assessment

Appendix: British retardation – the limits of economic explanation

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