Empire, State, and Society Britain since 1830

by Bronstein, Jamie L.; Harris, Andrew T.

• ISBN13: 9781405181815
• ISBN10: 1405181818
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Empire, State, and Society assesses the external and internal forces behind Britain's transformation from global superpower to its current position in the twenty-first century. The authors provide an accessible and balanced introduction, which is thoughtfully organized for ease of use for both students and teachers. Offers a crucial comparative dimension which sets the experience of Britain alongside that of twenty-first-century superpower, the United States of America Draws on recent scholarship to provide a highly current perspective Organised to allow professors to assign readings with more or less depth as student abilities and course lengths allow Written in a style that is wholly accessible and exciting for undergraduates in both the US and the UK

Author Biography

Jamie L. Bronstein is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. She is the author of three books: Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States, 1800-1862 (1999), Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2008), and Transatlantic Radical: John Francis Bray (2009).

 Andrew T. Harris is Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at Bridgewater State University. He is the author of Policing the City: Crime and Legal Authority in London, 1780-1840 (2004).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 Britain to 1830 4

2 Universal Suffrage and No Surrender: Politics at Home and Abroad, 1830–1867 30

3 Dark Satanic Mills? Economic and Social Change, 1830–1867 52

4 Utilitarians, Evangelicals, and Empire: Intellectual and Cultural Developments, 1830–1867 70

5 Democracy and Empire: Politics, 1867–1910 91

6 The Decline of the Aristocracy: Economic and Social Change, 1867–1910 110

7 Faith and Doubt? Cultural Change, 1867–1910 125

8 In Flanders Fields: Britain and the Great War, 1910–1918 147

9 Nationalism and Depression: Politics, Economics, and Social Change, 1919–1939 168

10 Culture and Ideas between the Wars, 1919–1939 191

11 London Burning: Britain in the Second WorldWar 206

12 Winds of Change: Politics, 1945–1979 222

13 Building a Welfare State: Society and the Economy, 1945–1979 242

14 Meet the Beatles: Cultural and Intellectual Developments, 1945–1979 259

15 From Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia: Politics, 1979–2007 277

16 Whither Britain? Society and Culture since 1979 296

Appendix: Reigns and Ministries since 1830 312

Bibliography 315

Index 330