The Cultivation of Hatred. The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Vol. III.

First edition. Tall 8vo. Pp. xii, 685, b/w pls., appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, acknowledgements, index. Navy blue buckram lettered in gilt to spine, with embossed author's initials to front panel. Jacket design by Julie Metz.

The third in Peter Gay's multi-volume examination of 19th-century Victorian society: an exploration of middle class aggression, simmering just under the era's "civilised" façade, and leading ultimately to the outbreak of WWI. Described as "the country's pre-eminent cultural historian" by The New York Times in 2007, Gay authored over 25 books, was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and was bestowed with the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004.

"With sweep, erudition, and insight, Gay, in this third volume of a projected five-book history of middle-class culture in 19th-century Europe and America, explores aggression as both a constructive and destructive force in Victorian life." –Kirkus Reviews