Britain Since 1789 : A Concise History

ISBN-13: 9780333764534 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 264 str.

Martin Pugh

Opis

In Britain since 1789, Martin Pugh offers a stimulating introduction to the fundamental social, political and economic changes that took place in Great Britain from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In his study of this complex and fascinating period, he explores the major factors governing and determining events and asks:
How and why did Britain reach her peak as a great industrial power by 1850? What has been the nature and extent of economic decline since the late-Victorian period? How, as violent, revolutionary change swept across Europe, did the aristocratic British political system give way to mass democracy with scarcely a protest? How did Britain manage to acquire a huge empire in the nineteenth century while investing so little in her armed forces? Drawing on the latest historical research, Pugh presents an accessible, concise and yet wide-ranging analysis of the factors that have shaped contemporary Britain. His study culminates in an evaluation of Britain's dilemmas at the end of this century - following the collapse of consensus politics, the rejection of Thatcherism, the emergence of New Labour and the reappraisal of Britain's relationship with Europe.

Spis treści

British Society and Economy in the Eighteenth Century.- British Politics and the Political System in the Eighteenth Century.- The Impact of the French Revolution 1789-1815.- The Industrial Revolution and the British People.- Reaction and Radicalism 1815-1827.- The Era of Reform 1828-1841.- The Condition of England Question 1832-1848.- The Triumph of Free Trade.- Mid-Victorian Britain: Progress and Prosperity.- Pax Britannica.- Mid-Victorian Politics 1846-1865.- The Era of Gladstonian Liberalism 1865-1885.- The Age of Conservatism 1885-1905.- British Society in Decline 1873-1902.- The Working Class and Socialist Revival.- The New Imperialism.- The State and Social Reform in the Edwardian Era.- The Edwardian Crisis 1902-1914.- The Continental Commitment 1890-1914.- The Impact of the First World War.- The Inter-War Economic Depression.- The Rise of Labour 1918-1929.- Political Stability in the 1930s.- The Era of Appeasement.- The Impact of the Second World War.- The Era of Consensus 1945-1959.- The Decline of British Power 1945-1974.- Affluence and Decline 1960-1974.- The End of Consensus Politics 1975-1998.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

MARTIN PUGH is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. A well-known academic and writer on modern British history, his previous publications include Women and the Women's Movement in Britain 1914-1959 (also published by Macmillan) and A Companion to Modern European History 1871-1945 and State and Society: British Political and Social History, 1870-1992.