The Challenge of Democracy: Britain 1832-1918

ISBN-13: 9780582313040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 314 str.

Hugh Cunningham

Opis

Britain's 19th century was a period of unprecedented and rapid change - the modernization of a world power. This text is a fresh, authoritative history of this period. Britain is set firmly in the context of world power and the possession of empire. The overarching theme is the challenge presented by democracy in a period framed by the First and the Fourth Reform Acts. Democracy itself had no stable meaning. Contrary to popular memory, its opponents were quite as vocal as its advocates. This book explores its implications for the role of the state, for the governance of the world's largest empire, and for the relationship between the different nations within the United Kingdom.

Spis treści

Democracy
Britain in the 1830s
An Age of Reform: 1832-48
Mid-Victorian Britain: 1848-66
Progress and Anxiety
Stepping Stones to Democracy: 1867-86
The Conservative Ascendancy: 1886-1905
An Urban Society: Britain 1870-1918
Empire and Nation: The British and their Identities
The Birth of the Modern State: 1905-14
Britain at War: 1914-18
Britain in 1918

O autorze

Hugh Cunningham is Professor of Social History, University of Kent. He is the author of several books, including the highly-regarded Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500 (Longman, 1995).