The Nineteenth Century

The complete "Short Oxford History of The British Isles" covers the history of the British Isles from the Roman Era to the present in eleven volumes.

In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues including society, economy, religion, politics, and culture head-on in chapters that are wide-ranging surveys and searching analyses.

Each book is specifically designed with the non-specialist reader in mind; but the authority of the contributors and the vigour of the interpretations makes them suitable reading for fellow academics across a range of disciplines.The 19th century was Britain's moment as a world power, not only in the narrow political sense, but with respect to a vast range of activities and achievements.

This book sets out to describe the force and complexity of that experience, and to cover, in an interdisciplinary way, the political, economic, and cultural history of the British Isles between 1815 and 1901.