The Shaping of Modern Britain: Identity, Industry and Empire, 1780-1914

ISBN-13: 9781408225646 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 560 str.

Eric Evans

Opis

In this wide-ranging history of modern Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which Britain was transformed into the world's first industrial power. By the end of the nineteenth century, Britain was still ruled by wealthy landowners, but the world over which they presided had been utterly transformed.

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IDENTITY, INDUSTRY AND EMPIRE, 1780-1914

 

 

Section 1: Early Industrial Britain, c1780-1850

 

Introduction          

Chapter 1: A ‘Greater Britain’ in 1780? 

Chapter 2: The Demographic Revolution in Britain and Ireland

Chapter 3: Aristocracy rampant?   

Chapter 4: The role and impact of the middle classes in British society

Chapter 5: Industrial Revolution or Industrial Evolution?

Chapter 6: Urban Growth and Regional Diversity

Chapter 7: Agriculture in the Early Industrial Age

Chapter 8: Industrialism and Conflict

 

 

Section 2: Britainat war and peace, 1780-1815

Introduction

Chapter   9: Government in crisis: the impact of the war for America

Chapter 10: A ‘National Revival’ under the Younger Pitt, 1783-93

Chapter 11: Britain in the 1790s: the impact of the French Revolution      

Chapter 12: The Younger Pitt & the French Revolutionary Wars, 1793-1801

Chapter 13: The Napoleonic Wars, 1803-15

Chapter 14: John Bull’s other Island: Ireland and Union, 1780-1815

Chapter 15: Paying for War: government, politics and religion in early nineteenth-century Britain

 

 

 

Section 3:A new political era, 1815-46

Introduction

Chapter 16:  The Age of Lord Liverpool I: Radicalism, Reform and Repression, 1815-22

Chapter 17:  The Age of Lord Liverpool II: Liberal Toryism, 1822-27?

Chapter 18:  Congresses and Conflicts: Britain in Europe, 1815-30

Chapter 19:  Matters Imperial, c1790-c1850

Chapter 20:  The crisis of Toryism and the road to Reform, 1827-32

Chapter 21:  The reality of Reform: the new order and its critics

Chapter 22:  The Age of Peel? Policies and Parties, 1832-46

 

Section 4:A Mature Industrial Society, c1850-1914

 

Introduction

Chapter 23: A ‘Second Industrial Revolution’?: British economic performance,

1850-80

Chapter 24: Social structure and social change in a maturing economy

Chapter 25: Identities, Aspirations and Gender

Chapter 26: Free Trade, Laissez-faire and the changing role the state, c1830-80

Chapter 27: Supremacy under threat? Economy and Society, 1880-1914

Chapter 28: The State, Charity and the Poor, c1830-c1900

Chapter 29: Education, Leisure and Society

 

 

Section 5:Party, Policy and Diplomacy: 1846-80

Introduction

Chapter 30: Party Politics Confounded, 1846-59

Chapter 31: Parliamentary Reform c1850-1880: Intention and Impact

Chapter 32: Gladstone and the Liberal Party, 1860-80

Chapter 33: Disraeli and the Conservative Party, 1860-80

Chapter 34: Diplomacy and War: the Pax Britannica challenged, c1840-65

Chapter 35: Diplomacy and the Eastern Question, c1865-80

 

 

Section 6:  Empire, Democracy and the Road to War, 1880-1914.

Introduction

Chapter 36: ‘This vast Empire on which the Sun never sets’: imperial expansion and cultural  

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Chapter 37:  Conservatism in the era of Salisbury

Chapter 38:  The Liberal party, 1880-1914: sundered and saved?

Chapter 39:  Votes for Women

Chapter 40:  The impact of Ireland on British Politics, 1880-1914

Chapter 41:  Labour, welfare and social conflict, 1900-14

Chapter 42:  A greater need for security: Diplomacy and alliance systems, 1880-1902

Chapter 43:  An accidental catastrophe? The origins of the First World War

 

Chapter 44: Epilogue

 

 

O autorze

Eric J. Evans is Professor Emeritus of History at Lancaster University and author of a number of seminal books on the political and social history of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain, including The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870 (third edition 2001) and Britain Before the Reform Act (second edition 2008).