Mahdi & Gordon...

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Back to V., some links:

Mahdi and Gordon

http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/institutter/smi/sa/4Mahdi.html

http://www.mpmbooks.com/amelia/GORDON.HTM

This next one is HUGE, so if your modem thing is slow...

In the half-century of expansion before Queen Victoria
acceded to the throne,  Britain's overseas territorial
possessions had evolved into a global empire. Dependant  
colonies stretched from North America and the Caribbean to
India and Australia.   These possessions were sustained and
supported by commercial, industrial, and   maritime might
that surpassed that of other powers. In the nineteenth
century Britain   developed its "informal empire" -an
immense influence far exceeding that represented   by
territorial dominion. During Victoria's long reign the
dependencies and influence   accumulated at a rapid pace,
and by her death, the British Empire was the greatest   the
world had ever seen and the envy of other nations. Many
Britons felt themselves   to be part of a global
commonwealth united by British cultural, moral, political,
and   commercial values.  Justly described as the age of the
periodical press, the nineteenth century saw
  an extraordinary proliferation of all kinds of
periodicals. Scholars now suggest that   nineteenth-century
periodicals had a larger readership than did
nineteenth-century books, and a correspondingly greater
influence. An increasingly literate public, a growing middle
class, emerging professionalism and
specialization in the trades and  disciplines, and
technological advances in printing and methods of
illustration--these developments all contributed to the
explosion of British periodical publishing in the 1800s. The
magisterial reviews of the early years of the century were
joined and then surpassed by monthly and weekly journals
published for all manner of reasons: reform, instruction,
amusement, enlightenment, advertisement, enrichment. The
reading public seemed insatiable: every stratum and
sub-stratum of society,
every political stripe, and every philosophical bent were
represented and served by at least
several periodicals. There were magazines for liberals,
conservatives, reformers,
reactionaries; women, men, girls, boys, families; army
officers, naval officers; artists, authors, doctors; the
fashion-conscious, the avant-garde, the antiquarian; the
upper, the middle, the lower classes; the religious, the
scientific, the zealous. Britain's overseas empire was of
course reflected in contemporary periodicals...


Well, actually it's way to big, so you can type it:




library.yale.edu/~mpowell/victorianper.html#athen