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Preface | |
War and Society | |
The War of the League of Augsburg | |
The Financial Revolution | |
The Politics of War and Peace | |
The War of the Spanish Succession | |
The Politics of Victory | |
The New World of Trade | |
The Social Pyramid | |
The Augustan Age | |
Marriage, Courtship, and the Family | |
The Act of Union with Scotland | |
The Treaty of Utrecht | |
The Hanoverian Succession | |
Further Reading | |
An Age Of Stability: 1714-1760 | |
The Achievement of Political Stability | |
The Winning of an Empire | |
The Search for an Ordered Culture | |
The People and Their Rulers | |
Further Reading | |
The Economic, And Social Transformation Of England: 1761-1815 | |
More People and More Food | |
The Industrial Revolution | |
Further Reading | |
The Intellectual Transformation | |
The Church of England | |
The Awakening of Dissent | |
Evangelicalism in the Church of England | |
The Oxford Movement | |
Romanticism | |
The Spirit of Rationalism | |
Further Reading | |
Politics In The Reign Of George III | |
George III's Political Apprenticeship: 1760-1770 | |
The American Revolution: 1770-1783 | |
The Political Crisis of 1782-1784 | |
The Ascendancy of Pitt the Younger: 1784-1806 | |
Royal Maladies and Royal Decline | |
Further Reading | |
Diplomacy and War In The Age Of Revolution | |
The French Revolutionary Wars | |
Castlereagh and the Reconstruction of Europe | |
The Foreign Policy of George Canning | |
Lord Palmerston at the Foreign Office | |
The Crimean War | |
Further Reading | |
Conservatism, Liberalism, and Reform | |
Conservative Toryism | |
Liberal Toryism | |
The Reform Act of 1832 | |
Chartism and the Anti-Corn Law League | |
The Beginnings of a Welfare State | |
Further Reading | |
An Age Of Prosperity | |
The Crystal Palace: Mid-Victorian Cornucopia | |
The Pursuit of Comfort: Victorian Society | |
The Victorian Social Consensus | |
The Formation of the Liberal Party | |
The Reform Act of 1867 | |
Disraeli versus Gladstone | |
Further Reading | |
Victorianism | |
The Conquests of Science | |
Religion and Doubt | |
Morals and Mores | |
Tastes and Moods | |
Further Reading | |
The British Empire | |
Pax Britannica | |
The Self-governing Dominions | |
India and Beyond | |
The Scramble for Africa | |
Imperialism and Empire | |
Further Reading | |
An Age Of Crisis: 1873-1914 | |
A Flagging Colossus | |
The Impoverished | |
The Emergence of Labor | |
Seventeen Years of Conservative Rule | |
The Liberals' Chance | |
Women, Workers, and Tories | |
Further Reading | |
Britain And World War I | |
Why England Went to War | |
A Confusion of Strategies: 1914-1915 | |
The Home Front | |
The Western Front: 1916-1918 | |
The Coupon Election and the Peace of Versailles | |
The Irish War of Independence: 1916-1921 | |
Further Reading | |
Britain Between The Wars | |
The Economy | |
Unemployment, Poverty, and Inequality | |
The Rise of Labour and the Decline of the Liberals | |
The Ascendant Tories | |
Progress and Disillusionment | |
Further Reading | |
Britain And World War II | |
The Coming of War | |
The Battle for Survival | |
The Mediterranean Strategy | |
War in the Far-Flung Empire | |
France | |
Liberated, Germany Defeated | |
The Citizens' War | |
The Impact of War | |
Further Reading | |
Life In Socialist Britain | |
Technology and Wealth | |
Freedom and Authority | |
Equality and Inequality | |
Truth and Beauty | |
The Poor Will Always Be with Us | |
The Contented and Angry 1950s, The Swinging 1960s | |
The Winter of Our Discontent | |
Further Reading | |
Socialist Britain: 1945-2007 | |
The Commitment to Socialism: 1945-1951 | |
Years of Affluence and Tory Rule: 1951-1964 | |
The Collapse of the Empire | |
The Wilson Era and the Problem of Inflation | |
Edward Heath at the Helm: 1970-1974 | |
Wilson and Callaghan: 1974-1979 | |
Margaret Thatcher's Eleven-Year Rule | |
The Fall of the Iron Lady | |
Blatcherism: Blair in Power | |
Further Reading | |
Appendix | |
Index | |
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