Imperial War and the British Working Class

First published in 2006. This study looks at a time when Victorian Britain was a time for self-doubt. There was an increasing fear that the ''place in the sun'' that had so long been hers was being shadowed by the rising powers of Germany and the United States of America. Doubts arouse about her economic strength, her military prowess, even the viability of the two-party system. The South African ...