The Making of Modern England 17841867 Author:Asa Briggs To analyze the changes in society and institutions, in habits of thought and emotional attitudes, during the period marked by the ascent of the industrial middle classes is, of course, a formidable order. Briggs does not look for the easy way out, but takes as his assignment the totalit of English internal development, with all its confusion and... more » contradictions..He holds a fair balance between narrative and analysis and the two are never allowed to get far apart but are constantly adding content and meaning to each other.« less