How did the victorian age help shape our modern world today?
It was the “glory” days for Britain as a world power, especially it’s colonization of Africa, and development of competition between it and Germany too. Industrialism, blind faith in “power makes right” and hipocracy about human sexuality probably are it’s main legacies. Women were supposed to be non-sexual beings, and men were allowed to find “happiness” with daliances with maids, mistresses, and prostitutes. IMO, the modern world is a “reaction” against Victorianism, much of it anyway. Today internationational cooperation, and diplomacy, a world structure like the UN replace the “do it alone” of British power in the late 19th century. Thinking about it now, golly, perhaps President G. W. Bush, and some modern conservatives are still pretty “Victorian” too, they haven’t learned much from lessons of history. Biggest change, if not in political and military aspects, is today our world is “electrified” (by Thomas Edison), so we have better instant voice communications (they had the cable
