Overview
Each title in Lucent's World History series provides an overview of important historical events or periods in world history. This volume focuses on the Victorian era in Great Britain, lasting from Queen Victoria's ascension to the throne in 1837 until her death in 1901.
Features & Benefits
- Using primary and secondary sources, each volume provides background information on a significant event in modern world history, presents the controversies surrounding the event, and offers first-person narratives from people who lived through or were imp
- Sidebars, visual time lines, indexes, and annotated bibliographies, which appear in every volume, offer a wealth of additional information as well as provide launching points for further discussion and study.