Families in the Victorian Age were large, but as the century went on family size began to shrink. ... In the latter half of the century, the industrial age came on full bore and created some very rich people. ... The stresses and strains of the industrial nineteenth century brought about a spiritual and emotional retreat to the soothing comforts of hearth and family and a tendency to escape from the harsher realities. Eighteenth-century sentiment was replaced by nineteenth-century sentimentality, as evoked in the following popular verse: "If I should from this world/Depart you'd have a ...

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Was the British entrepreneur the most important single reason for the relative decline of the British economy in the late nineteenth century? ... There was only state intervention in British education as late as 1902, and the century` s children and industries were generally regarded as ill -served. ... "The assimilation of the British business classes to the social pattern of the gentry and aristocracy had proceeded very rapidly from the mid nineteenth century, the period when so many of the so called ` public schools ` were founded, or reformed by finally excluding the poor for whom t...

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British Imperialism And the Boer War European politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries endured controversy and problem over the ideas of imperialism and nationalism. ... In the early nineteenth century in an attempt to protect imperial interest in the East, England extended her control of southern Africa. ... By the end of the century, Southern Africa had become, for the first time, a significant contributor to the world economy. ... During the eighteenth century, largely in response to the Dutch East India Company's strict regulation on their lives, many settler...

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The emergence of many popular music genres during the twentieth century can be linked to technological advancements of the same period. The rise of recorded music together with more stringent copyright protection laws facilitated the development of the music business in capitalist society and more specifically the centralization of the American music publishing business and songwriters in an area of New York known as Tin Pan Alley in the late-nineteenth century. ... During the twentieth century, a vast number of musical genres and styles emerged, particularly during the postwar period. ...

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Byzantine historians had also early fallen into the writing of chronicles, although the greater unity of the Byzantine Empire and the persistence of a unified culture gave somewhat more literary quality to the Byzantine works, from Procopius through Anna Comnena to the 13th-century writings of George Acropolita and the Acominatus brothers. ... In 12th-century Europe secular history writing emerged, shown in the work of Geoffroi de Villehardouin, and the chronicles of Jean, sire de Joinville, Jean Froissart, and Philippe de Comines in successive centuries. 8 Renaissance Historiography ...

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The problems of Britain's cities fall into this category; if we look back over the Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries we find problems of poverty, unemployment, crime, etc, constantly reoccurring (see Steadman-Jones, 1976). ... In particular they experienced major economic decline/restructuring (deindustrialisation – see Martin and Rowthorn (eds), 1986) as the key Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century industries that provided their economic life were closed and gradually replaced by new service and retail based industries. ...

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