The present, seventh, volume of the series From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria offers profitable re-visitations of old themes, as well as explorations of new themes and problems. The volume focuses on the literature, culture, and political and social history of Britain in a period when the structures of industrial modernity were being created, and examines Britain?s imprint on the global cultural heritage, including class, gender and race-based hierarchies that persist in varying degrees into the present.