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List of illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Introduction: Victorian Milestones, Martin Hewitt. PART I: THE WORLD ORDER. 2. The Great Arch of Empire Dane Kennedy. 3. The shrinking of the globe, Peter J. Hugill. 4. Patterns of industrialization, Emma Griffin. 5. Free Trade and its Enemies, Tony Howe, 6. The globalisation of culture, Patrick Brantlinger. 7. Human Traffic, Eric Richards. 8. Varieties of nationalism, Krishan Kumar. 9. Geopolitics and the Victorian Geopolitical Unconscious, Lauren M.E. Goodlad. PART 2: ECONOMY AND SOCIETY. 10. Entrepreneurialism or Gentlemanly Capitalism, Donna Loftus. 11. Money’s Worth: Morality, Class, Politic, Timothy Alborn. 12. Cultures of Commodities, Cultures of Things, Elaine Freedgood. 13. Urbanising experiences, Richard Dennis. 14. The culture of ‘environmentality’ and the exceptionality of the countryside, William Taylor 15. Was there a Victorian demographic transition? Alison Mackinnon. 16. 'Many little harmless and interesting adventures...: Gender and the Victorian City, Lynda Nead. 17. Disease and the Body, Pamela K. Gilbert. PART 3: POLITICS. 18. The Victorian State in its Imperial Contexts, Zoe Laidlaw.19. Voluntarism and self-help, Alex Tyrrell. 20. The performance of citizenship, Rohan McWilliam. 21. Race and Citizenship: Colonial Inclusions and Exclusions, Alan Lester. 22. ‘Private Law’ and the Laissez-Faire State, Michael Lobban. 23. Discipline, Barry Godfrey. PART 4: KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF. 24. Worlds of Victorian Religion, Jeffrey Cox. 25. The creed of science and its enemies, Bernard Lightman. 26. The Power of the Past: History and Modernity in the Victorian World, Billie Melman. 27. Education, Class and Culture, Robert Anderson. 28. The Photographic lens: graphs and the changing practices of Victorian economists, Harro Maas. 29. The antinomies of sage culture, William Whyte. PART 5: CULTURE. 30. Periodicalism, Graham Law. 31. The Global Common Reader, Jonathan Rose. 32. Victorian Theatricality, Kate Newey. 33. The Empire of Art, Alison Inglis. 34. Aural anxieties and the advent of modernity, John Picker. 35. Leisure: Merrie to Modern, Peter Bailey. PART 6: VARIETIES OF VICTORIAN. 36. India in the Victorian age – Victorian India? Margrit Pernau. 37. Victorianism at the frontier: the white settler colonies, Margot Finn. 38. Afro-Victorian Worlds, Simon Gikandi. 39. Learning the rules of the game: informal empire and the Mexican experience at Stonyhurst College, 1805-1920, Victor Macías-González. 40. The Victorian period of American History, Daniel Howe.