The World 100 Years Ago
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
A steam locomotive crosses a precarious timber trestle bridge — a single photograph that captures the audacious spirit of an age that remade civilisation in a generation. The World 100 Years Ago by Michael Wynn Jones presents a vivid photographic and narrative portrait of the late nineteenth century, a period of extraordinary transformation in industry, society, politics, and everyday life. Drawing on a rich archive of period photographs, Jones chronicles the lives of ordinary people and extraordinary events that defined an era — from the thundering expansion of railways to the quieter rhythms of rural life, urban poverty, and imperial ambition. Jones presents history not as a sequence of dates and battles, but as a textured, human experience, rendered immediate through the unflinching eye of the Victorian camera. The result is a work that is both a visual document and a compelling social history, illuminating the vast distance — and surprising proximity — between that world and our own. For anyone who has wondered what daily life truly looked like a century past, this volume delivers an answer both haunting and revelatory.
Author: Michael Wynn Jones
Format: Paperback
Published: 1977, -
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
A steam locomotive crosses a precarious timber trestle bridge — a single photograph that captures the audacious spirit of an age that remade civilisation in a generation. The World 100 Years Ago by Michael Wynn Jones presents a vivid photographic and narrative portrait of the late nineteenth century, a period of extraordinary transformation in industry, society, politics, and everyday life. Drawing on a rich archive of period photographs, Jones chronicles the lives of ordinary people and extraordinary events that defined an era — from the thundering expansion of railways to the quieter rhythms of rural life, urban poverty, and imperial ambition. Jones presents history not as a sequence of dates and battles, but as a textured, human experience, rendered immediate through the unflinching eye of the Victorian camera. The result is a work that is both a visual document and a compelling social history, illuminating the vast distance — and surprising proximity — between that world and our own. For anyone who has wondered what daily life truly looked like a century past, this volume delivers an answer both haunting and revelatory.