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A.N. Wilson Ð 6 Read Characters ò The Victorians ï PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB E too are the poor and the obscure doctors ministering to cholera victims in the big cities young women working as models for the famous painters the man who got the British hooked on cigarettes the butchers and victims of conflict in Ireland India and Africa In this authoritative accessible and insightful book AN Wilson tells a great story one that is still unfinished in our own day. This is a very good read is very well researched and provides a wealth of information on the Victorians and their social context It was very hard to put down despite its massive length One of the problems Wilson has though is his annoying tendency to either misread or misunderstand Marx This is due I think in large part because of his sympathy for British forms of socialism based in Robert Owens It s clear Wilson has read Marx and not just the Communist Manifesto But despite his knowledge he continually mis characterizes Marx s position conflates Marxism with Leninism or worse says that certain things Marx could never have imagined when in fact those things form a fundamental part of Marxist theory For example Wilson claims that Marx could never have imagined that the aristocracy could have died out mainly because of the vast plethora of suburban citizens by the end of the nineteenth century Actually Marx himself predicted this the aristocracy were a part of the feudal relations of production hanging on into the era of capitalist relations of production that s who all those suburbanites were petit bourgeois or outright capitalists who would according to Marx eventually come to replace the remnants of the feudal aristocracy Again Wilson uite rightly castigatess Kitchener s cruelty in spreading the Empire but refuses to acknowledge that contemporary culture still bears responsibility for such crimes because we continue to benefit from them Wilson would not have his position as a writer or as an academic if Britain had not accumulated so much wealth through its imperial atrocities Wilson should continue to decry what was done in the past but also needs to step up to the plate and admit the continuing benefit we all reap from that horrible period of history Despite such disingenousness Wilson s book is a valuable reference work on the Victorians and their time Captive Embraces Captive #2 unfinished in our own day. This is a very good read is very well researched and provides a wealth of information on the Victorians and their social context It was very hard to put down despite its massive length One of the problems Wilson has though is his annoying tendency to either misread or misunderstand Marx This is due I think in large part because of his sympathy for British forms of socialism based in Robert Owens It s clear Wilson has read Marx and not just the Communist Manifesto But despite his knowledge he continually mis characterizes Marx s position conflates Marxism with Leninism or worse says that certain things Marx could never have imagined when in fact those things form a fundamental part of Marxist theory For example Wilson claims that Marx could never have imagined that the aristocracy could have died out mainly because of the vast plethora of suburban citizens by the end of the nineteenth century Actually Marx himself predicted this the aristocracy were a part of the feudal relations of production hanging on into the era of capitalist relations of production that s who all those suburbanites were petit bourgeois or outright capitalists who would according to Marx eventually come to replace the remnants of the feudal aristocracy Again Wilson Paying the Piper uite rightly castigatess Kitchener s cruelty in spreading the Empire but refuses to acknowledge that contemporary culture still bears responsibility for such crimes because we continue to benefit from them Wilson would not have his position as a writer or as an academic if Britain had not accumulated so much wealth through its imperial atrocities Wilson should continue to decry what was done in the past but also needs to step Claiming Her up to the plate and admit the continuing benefit we all reap from that horrible period of history Despite such disingenousness Wilson s book is a valuable reference work on the Victorians and their time

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A.N. Wilson Ð 6 Read Characters ò The Victorians ï PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB AN Wilson does for the Victorians what Peter Ackroyd did for LondonPeople not abstract ideas make history and nowhere is this revealed than in this superb portrait of the Victorians in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story In an entertaining and often dramatic narrative AN Wilson shows us remarkable people in the very act of creating the Victoria. I didn t finish this book although I did think it was decent There is some really good information in here but it was kind of slow going and I had a lot of other stuff going on My main complaint is that Wilson assumes the reader already know a lot of the figures he s talking about This would probably be the case if I was raised and went to school in England but as an ignorant US citizen I kept going Who What s that And then I would have to consult Google and it was very disruptive to the reading experience If he d just inserted little dependent clauses like John Potatohands the ueen s royal potato planter was a man of letters instead of just being like John Potatohands was a man of letters it would have helped me out a lot It was a library book that I put down a while back but soon after I picked it up again and started reading a chapter a day I ran out of renewals I get the feeling that it is uite informative I learned a lot in just the bit I read and I would like to come back to it when I have timepatience for its format and style

A.N. Wilson Ð 6 Read Characters ò The Victorians ï PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB N ageThe industrial capitalist world came into being because of actual businessmen journalists and politicians We meet them in the pages of this fascinating book Their ideas were challenged by the ideas of other people such as Karl Marx William Morris and George Bernard Shaw Here are the lofty and the famous Prince Albert Lord Palmerston Charles Dickens Gladstone and Disraeli and her. I decided to read this only one chapter per day so that I could really enjoy the wonderful writing and the bits that are not normally included in books about the VictoriansGlad to see my friend Dizzy came out well he was always my favourite unlike the patronizing sermonizing GladstoneNice to see the ladies of the time getting kudos tooMaryanne Evans still remains one of my favourite authors along with Oscar WildeWell worth reading and just enjoying