A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

686 Ch. 18 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism Victorian Britain In 1840, young Queen Victoria (1819-1901) married th ...

Victorian Britain 687 for a nation in the midst of a great transformation during the second half of the century. Victoria knew v ...

688 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism results of a government survey of every church in England and Wales o ...

Victorian Britain 689 in 1815. (Indeed the period is sometimes known as the Pax Britannia, in part because Britain’s naval domin ...

690 Ch. 18 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism imperial administration. Sultan Mahmud 11 (ruled 1808-1839) had reor­ ...

Victorian Britain 691 Empire in the Balkans began to exert nationalist claims, dreaming of their own independent states. This ch ...

692 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism (Left) The charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. (Right) Florence ...

Victorian Britain 693 to include the most prosperous segments of the working class. Most British workers seemed to accept the be ...

694 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism as King George I, while placating Greek nationalists by awarding one ...

Victorian Britain 695 (1804—1881) became the leader of the Conservatives and Gladstone’s great rival. A Jew who had been baptize ...

696 Ch. 18 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism that the minimum countryside tax requirement be further lowered. Under ...

Victorian Britain 697 many poor workers resided. Thereafter, parliamentary commissions began to call upon experts to gather info ...

698 Ch. 18 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism uneducated children. Yet considerably more than altruism lay behind a ...

Victorian Britain 699 The Conservative Party now reflected an important change in modern British political life. The traditional ...

700 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism Protestant landlords were not about to turn over land in Ireland to t ...

Victorian Britain 701 New Contours in British Political Life Queen Victoria’s longevity—she ruled the vast British Empire with d ...

702 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism (Left) Ben Tillett, organizer of the Docker’s Union. (Right) James Ke ...

Victorian Britain 703 lower food prices. Unable to resolve the split within his party, Balfour resigned in December 1905, and th ...

704 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism not pass after it had been approved on three occasions by the House o ...

Tsarist Russia 705 gent opposition of the House of Lords. But with Britain—and all the pow­ ers of Europe—going to war, the deta ...