How Long to Read Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain

How Long Does it Take to Read Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 25 minutes to read Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain by William C. Lubenow

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Description

Examines the entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state in Britain. "Modern" Britain emerged from the outcome of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The rather standard Whig account of the long nineteenth century is one of growing stability, progress and improvement. And yet nothing was preordained or inevitable about the period's stability. Ruling elites felt the constant anxieties of revolutionary terrorism. As Lubenow argues, it was a period of disorganization seeking organization. The great nineteenth-century reform acts against religious monopoly were aspects of this process of political organization. While religion did not disappear, these political actions gradually changed the constitutional position of religion. As a result, a political vacuum was created which was then filled by a secular "clerisy". These "fit and proper persons", educated in the reformed universities, qualified by success in competitive examinations, began to fill positions in the Civil Service and in the professions. The effect was to replace the eighteenth-century system of confessional loyalties with a liberal political culture based on merit. Lubenow's latest study examines the work of these intertwining nineteenth-century secular-liberal processes. Steeped deeply in archival research, this book considers biographical characteristics such as education, political connections and social associations, but it is equally conceptually guided by categories such as liberalism and secularism. It fills an important gap in the political history of nineteenth-century British liberalism by taking up the question of entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state.

How long is Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain?

Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain by William C. Lubenow is 317 pages long, and a total of 81,469 words.

This makes it 107% the length of the average book. It also has 100% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 25 minutes to read Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain aloud.

What Reading Level is Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain?

Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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