Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Ninetee

The nineetenth century was a period of striking developments, and subject to a great pressure of change. This process of change is the primary focus of the book

This book surveys the features of nineteenth-century English and provides over 100 sample texts and numerous exercises.

"We think of the nineteenth century as an active age - the age of colonial expansion, revolutions, and railroads, of great exploration and the Great Exhibition.