Description: 'Must be regarded as an important step in rescuing Edwardian history from what he rightly calls "an academic limbo" ... combines the qualities of readability, breadth of focus, willingness to explain.' - TES
Review Quotes:
From reviews of the first edition:
`An ambitious and exciting enterprise.' - Times Literary Supplement `Must be regarded as an important step in rescuing Edwardian history from what he rightly calls "an academic limbo" ... combines the qualities of readability, breadth of focus, willingness to explain.' - Times Educational Supplement `Quite the most readable and illuminating piece of historical sociology to have been published in a long time.' - The Observer