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Early Victorian Devon examines the tumultuous early decades of young Victoria¿sreign when the country was on the threshold of the modern world and besiegedwith radical new ideas and emerging technologies. It uses numerous contemporaryprints to illustrate its stories.It describes Devon¿s great estates and their glittering receptions, liveried servants,and deferential tenants, and also the unrest across the county bred ofpoverty and hunger, and social and political inequality. Reverberating acrossDevon were the national controversies over the problems of the poor, mass education,and the franchise, and the equally contentious Acts of Parliament thatsought solutions.And technology was changing the world. Horse power was being overtakenby steam power, and the steel rails gouging their way across Devon were transformingcountless lives. And the steam boats, telegraph and newspapers werebringing back horrifying stories of the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny in whichso many Devon men served.This remarkable book is a riveting history and visual feast, offering fresh insightsinto the story of Devon and its people.
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Early Victorian Devon 1830-1860, David C. Parker
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- 2017
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