This text views the "hungry forties" in early-Victorian England through the writings of the conservative Thomas Carlyle, the liberal John Stuart Mill, and the socialist Friedrich Engels. The growth of industrial cities, the emergence of working-class organizations and rising middle-class power, as well as revolutions abroad in 1848 made this a tumultuous time. These writers provide reflections on the tensions produced in this key period of transition to an industrial, democratic society.
- ISBN10 0312214111
- ISBN13 9780312214111
- Publish Date 1 July 1998 (first published 8 June 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 194
- Language English