DAVID CANNADINE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the definitive history, and will remain so for generations' A.N. Wilson To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. There were revolutions in transport, communication, work; cities grew vast; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one. In his dazzling new book David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of the British nineteenth century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice. This was a country which saw itself at the summit of the world. And yet it was a society also convulsed by doubt, fear and introspection. Victorious Century reframes a time at once strangely familiar and yet wholly unlike our own.

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all.

En 1961 E. H. Carr publicó ¿Qué es la historia?, título del que desde entonces se han vendido cientos de miles de ejemplares en todo el mundo. Para celebrar e140 aniversario de su publicación, el Institute of Historical Research y el Trinity College de Cambridge, celebraron una serie de conferencias en las que se revisaba el estado de esta disciplina. Diez historiadores internacionalmente reconocidos, hablando de una serie de destacadas facetas historicas, se hicieron -e intentaron contestar- la pregunta de Carr para toda una nueva generacion de historiadores: ¿que significa estudiar historia a comienzos del siglo XXI? El presente volumen ocupara un lugar junto al clasico de Carr, como tributo a su duda seminal mientras lleva el debate hacia nuevos territorios, asegurando asi su frescura y relevancia en un nuevo siglo de estudio historico.