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E-grāmata: Britain Since 1707 [Taylor & Francis e-book]

(University of Dundee, UK),
  • Formāts: 704 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2010
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315835310
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  • Formāts: 704 pages
  • Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2010
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315835310
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Britain since 1707 is the first single-volume book to cover the complex and multi-layered history of Great Britain from its inception until 2007.

Bringing together political, economic, social and cultural history, the book offers a reliable and balanced account of the nation over a 300 year period. It looks at major developments such as the Enlightenment, the growth of democracy and gender change while also tracing the distinctive experience of different, the books additional features include: social and ethnic groups through the decades. Fully integrating Scotland, Wales and the Irish experience, the books comprehensive sweep includes coverage of the industrial revolution, the British Empire, the two world wars and todays multicultural society.

Ideally structured to support courses and classes on British history

· Focus On sections with original documents and sources

· Timelines and tables to aid understanding

· Historical sources and further reading suggestions at the end of each chapter

· Illuminating contemporary illustrations

From Queen Anne to Gordon Brown, this wide-ranging and accessible book provides a complete and up-to-date history of Britain. Offering a coherent account of the evolution of the nation and its people, it will be essential reading for all students of British history.

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Britain Since 1707 is a major new textbook providing the first comprehensive history of modern Britain. Comprehensive in theme, topic and geographical region, it ensures that students are given an essential grounding in the history of the nation.
Focus on xii
List of timelines
xiv
List of tables
xv
List of maps
xvi
List of figures
xvii
Acknowledgements xix
Preface xxi
PART 1 Introduction
1(16)
1 Approaches to Britain's history
3(14)
Images of Britain
3(2)
Language of the past
5(1)
The disputed British past
6(1)
Political history; putting the Great in Britain
7(2)
Labour and social history
9(2)
Economic history
11(3)
Cultural history
14(3)
PART 2 An uncertain stability 1707 -79
17(84)
2 The political system
19(19)
The making of Great Britain
19(1)
Politics and power
20(4)
Whigs and Tories
24(3)
Queen Anne's government
27(1)
The Walpole era
28(2)
Pelham to Pitt
30(2)
George III and Lord Bute
32(4)
Lord North
36(2)
3 Power and society in rural Britain
38(13)
Population and economy
38(8)
Church and religion
46(2)
Social relations
48(3)
4 Urban life
51(13)
Town and city
51(3)
Luxury and consumption
54(5)
Social rank and culture
59(5)
5 The Enlightenment and gender
64(13)
The nature of the Enlightenment
64(7)
The Enlightenment and gender
71(6)
6 The British abroad
77(24)
Early imperial expansion
77(3)
Canada
80(1)
India
81(3)
The Pacific
84(1)
American rebellion
85(6)
Ireland
91(10)
PART 3 The industrialising nation 1780 -1829
101(88)
7 The Industrial Revolution
103(16)
Economic change
103(3)
Causes of change
106(5)
Patterns of work
111(5)
Agriculture
116(3)
8 The social revolution
119(16)
The birth of class
119(4)
Gender relations
123(4)
The standard of living debate
127(5)
Housing and health
132(3)
9 Running the state
135(18)
From North to Pitt
135(4)
Pitt the Younger
139(2)
War with France
141(2)
Ireland and Union
143(1)
Addington to Liverpool
144(2)
The Liverpool ministry
146(2)
Catholic Emancipation
148(5)
10 Britain at war
153(14)
Out of isolation
153(3)
The first coalition
156(3)
The second coalition
159(2)
The third coalition
161(3)
Congress of Europe
164(3)
11 Challenges to the political system
167(22)
Pressures for reform
167(2)
The impact of the French Revolution
169(7)
Ireland
176(2)
Radicalism revives
178(11)
PART 4 The dominant nation 1830 -79
189(128)
12 The making of an urban society
191(16)
Urban conditions
191(6)
Tackling urban problems
197(4)
Poverty, policing and children
201(6)
13 The Victorian economy
207(18)
The steam age
207(8)
Economic organisation
215(2)
Blight and depression in Ireland and Scotland
217(2)
Agricultural improvement and society
219(6)
14 Class, gender and religion
225(16)
Class
225(4)
Gender
229(6)
Religion
235(6)
15 Responses to industrial change
241(13)
Resistance to change
241(2)
The British experience
243(3)
Owenite unionism
246(3)
New attitudes
249(5)
16 Politics in transition
254(22)
Whig reform
254(6)
Peel's government
260(3)
Politics without cohesion
263(3)
Palmerston's government
266(1)
Liberals, Tories and reform
267(3)
Gladstone's first ministry
270(2)
Disraelian Conservatism
272(4)
17 The growth of the state
276(17)
How the state grew
276(1)
The Poor Law
277(2)
Public health
279(7)
Factory and mines' reform
286(2)
Education
288(5)
18 Democratic pressures
293(24)
Parliamentary reform
293(2)
The factory movement
295(1)
Chartism
296(6)
The Anti-Corn Law League
302(2)
Administrative reform
304(1)
The Second Reform Act
305(12)
PART 5 The imperial heyday 1880 -1918
317(134)
19 Britain and its Empire
319(20)
Approaching empire and imperialism
319(1)
Indian revolt, African scramble
320(2)
Explanations of empire
322(4)
Testing the explanations
326(4)
Political considerations
330(4)
The South African War
334(5)
20 The late-Victorian and war economy
339(17)
Economic contradictions
339(4)
Did the late-Victorian economy fail
343(8)
Rural society and economy
351(2)
The war economy 1914---19
353(3)
21 Intellectual ferment
356(14)
Modernism
356(2)
Darwinism and science
358(3)
Marxism
361(4)
Freudianism
365(1)
Feminism
366(4)
22 People, society and culture
370(15)
Social class
370(1)
Trade unions and the Labour movement
371(4)
Women's lives
375(4)
Men's lives
379(3)
Ethnicity
382(3)
23 Political change 1880 -1901
385(15)
Irish unrest
385(3)
Parliamentary reform
388(2)
Salisbury's first ministry
390(2)
The Liberal split
392(1)
Salisbury's second ministry
393(2)
Liberal divisions
395(1)
Conservatism triumphant
396(4)
24 Edwardian politics 1901 -14
400(16)
Liberals divided
400(2)
Emergence of Labour
402(1)
Liberals united
403(4)
Asquith's governments
407(3)
Irish Home Rule
410(4)
Liberalism in 1914
414(2)
25 The British road to war
416(14)
Splendid isolation
416(2)
French relations
418(3)
German and Russian relations
421(3)
New tensions
424(2)
1912-14
426(2)
Why war?
428(2)
26 The First World War
430(21)
The coming of conflict
430(3)
Coalition government
433(3)
Lloyd George's coalition
436(2)
Ireland
438(3)
War and Empire
441(1)
The xenophobia of war
442(1)
Labour and the war
443(1)
The impact of war
444(7)
PART 6 War and the end of empire 1919 -63
451(112)
27 The economy in peace and war
453(12)
Boom and bust 1919 -32
453(2)
Recovery and war 1933 -45
455(4)
Did the interwar economy succeed?
459(2)
From austerity to prosperity 1946 ---63
461(2)
Workers and trade unions
463(2)
28 Political change 1919 -39
465(16)
Adjusting to the peace
465(4)
The Irish treaty
469(1)
End of coalition
470(1)
Labour government 1924
471(2)
Conservative government 1924 ---9
473(2)
Labour government 1929 ---31
475(2)
National governments
477(2)
Baldwin and Chamberlain
479(2)
29 The Second World War
481(16)
The search for peace
481(3)
Britain's war
484(7)
A political consensus?
491(3)
General election 1945
494(3)
30 People, society and culture
497(15)
Social class
497(6)
Men, women and youth
503(6)
Ethnicity
509(3)
31 From Attlee to Macmillan 1945 -63
512(15)
Labour in power
512(2)
Britain in the world
514(4)
Winston Churchill as peace Prime Minister
518(1)
Eden's government
519(1)
The Macmillan years 1957 -63
520(7)
32 The welfare state
527(13)
Origins
527(2)
Beveridge and after
529(7)
The end of the welfare state?
536(4)
33 The end of empire
540(23)
The concept of the Commonwealth
540(1)
South Asia
541(6)
Africa
547(5)
The Mediterranean and the West Indies
552(4)
Why the end?
556(7)
PART 7 The reshaping of Bntain 1964 -2007
563(98)
34 Economic modernisation
565(16)
The free-market economy
565(4)
Economic decline or transformation?
569(5)
The European Union 1974 -2007
574(2)
Work, education and trade unions
576(2)
Globalisation
578(3)
35 Black Britain: ethnic minorities and multiculturalism
581(15)
The background to 1963
581(4)
Patterns of migration, work and settlement
585(3)
Multiculturalism and resistance to it
588(2)
Discrimination and rights
590(2)
Religious identities
592(4)
36 Media, youth and society
596(12)
The media explosion
596(3)
Youth culture
599(4)
Whatever happened to class?
603(5)
37 The gender revolution
608(13)
Women's liberation
608(7)
The masculinity crisis
615(2)
The sexual revolution
617(4)
38 Politics from Wilson to Brown
621(20)
Labour again 1964 -70
621(3)
Heath's government 1970 -4
624(2)
Labour government 1974 ---9
626(1)
Margaret Thatcker 1979 -90
627(6)
John Major 1990 -7
633(1)
The `Troubles' in Northern Ireland 1969 -98
634(3)
Blair and Brown from 1997
637(4)
39 Fragmentation and Europeanisation of Britain
641(20)
Wales and Scotland
641(6)
The new Europe 1956 - 63
647(2)
Labour and Europe 1964 -79
649(1)
Towards the European Union 1979 -2007
650(3)
Blair, Brown and Europe from 1997
653(8)
Index 661
Callum G. Brown is professor of religious and cultural history at the University of Dundee. He is the author of eight books including Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain (2006), Postmodernism for Historians (2004) and The Death of Christian Britain (2001).

W. Hamish Fraser was professor of modern history at the University of Strathclyde. His publications include A History of British Trade Unionism 1700-1998 (1999) and The Coming of the Mass Market (1981), and he has also edited volumes on the histories of Glasgow and Aberdeen.