- Correlates with standards and benchmarks in World History and Social Studies
- Valuable for a wide range of courses, including history; literature; art history; social studies; gender studies; science, technology, and society; social movements; economics; political science; and religion and philosophy
- Offers an interdisciplinary approach to a major historical era
- Discusses and analyzes often-studied topics such as industralization, social thought and reform, colonial expansion, and cultural identity
- International in scope: focus is on Britain, but articles cover British influence in the United States, Europe, Ireland, and the British Empire, including special attention to India, Australia, and Africa
- Selected primary sources, with commentary, offer documentary evidence of major themes of the era
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