Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century British History in Honour of Walter L.Arnstein - Hardcover

These essays in 19th- and 20th-century British history are collected together in honour of historian Walter L. Arnstein. Topics addressed include: Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Derby, party politics and naval administration; 20th-century health care choices in Lancashire working-class communities; the London Missionary Society's Mongolian Missions - British insights into the "Great Game" in Asia; religious periodicals and their influence in the Victorian prelude; the Bismarck myth and the Congress of Berlin in the British review press, 1878-1879; advertising the army - political aesthetics and British Army fashion, 1815-1855; and more.