Morality and the Market in Victorian Britain

By G.R. Searle

Book Overview

In this stimulating study of mid-Victorian ethics and the political economy, Geoffrey Searle argues that entrenched ideals of public virtue posed a much more effective challenge to market forces than the need to mitigate poverty. Highly readable as well as instructive, the book captures the ideological dilemma at the heart of nineteenth-century British history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198206984
• ISBN13: 9780198206989
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"