Liberal England, World War and Slump 1901-1939

by Carter, E. H.; Mears, R. a. F.; Evans, David

• ISBN13: 9781906768485
• ISBN10: 190676848X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Stacey Intl

Summary

This massively popular series, first released in 1937, tells thestory of our islands in a straightforward, chronologicalnarrative. Carter and Mears' writing is fast-paced, muscular anddirect, and covers the matrix of British history including overseasevents, the arts, religion and major social changes.Updated and revised by an expert hand, this series is being revivedat a time when the failure of our schools to provide a connected,fact-based sense of the events that defined our nation, is beingrightly and increasingly lamented by politicians, parents and themedia. Volume VII opens at the turn of the 20th centuryand covers the Liberal Reformers, the Fist World War, the roaring'20s and the Great Depression.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 8
List of Maps	p. 8
Glossary	p. 9
Outline Summary	p. 10
Introduction	p. 11
The Working Class, the Trade Unions and the Foundation of the Labour Party
The Economy, 1900-14	p. 16
Socialism and Working-Class Politics in the 1800s and 1890s	p. 19
Changes in the Trade Unions after 1889	p. 21
The Foundation of the Labour Party	p. 25
Pre-War Industrial Unrest	p. 28
Popular Culture and Pre-War Cultural Achievements	p. 31
The Political Battles, 1901-1914
The Eclipse of the Unionists	p. 37
New Liberalism	p. 40
The Earlier Liberal Measures, 1906-8	p. 42
The Struggle between the Liberals and the Lords, 1909-11	p. 44
The Liberal Record, 1909-14	p. 48
The Liberals and Labour	p. 51
Women and the Struggle for the Vote
Changes in the Lives of Middle-Class Women at the Turn of the 19th Century	p. 55
The Lives of Working-Class Women at the Start of the 20th Century	p. 60
The Argument over Extending the Vote to Women	p. 61
The Suffragette Campaign, 1903-14	p. 65
The Achievement of the Vote, 1918	p. 69
The Failure to Transform the Empire
The Conservatives and the Empire before 1906	p. 72
The Roots of Imperialist Sentiment	p. 79
The Liberals and the Empire, 1905-14	p. 83
South Africa	p. 86
Egypt and India	p. 88
The Tropical Colonies	p. 91
British Foreign Policy and the Road to the First World War
The Great Powers and the Alliance System	p. 94
The End of British Isolation	p. 99
The German Threat	p. 302
The Crisis of 1914	p. 109
The First World War, 1914-18
The Character of the War	p. 116
Recruiting the Army	p. 123
Economic Mobilization	p. 126
The Campaigns of the First World War
The Failure of the Schlieffen Plan, 1914	p. 128
The Gallipoli Campaign, 1915	p. 134
1916: The Year of the Great Battles	p. 138
Rival Bids for Victory in 1917	p. 141
The Luddendorf Offensive and the Allied Counter-Attack, 1918	p. 146
The Legacy of die War	p. 149
British Society Between the Wars
The British Economy and the Standard of Living	p. 154
Unemployment and Poverty	p. 159
Leisure and the Media	p. 164
The Arts and Sciences	p. 169
British Politics Between die World Wars
The Liberals, the Conservatives and the War	p. 173
The War and the Labour Party	p. 178
Lloyd George's Coalition Government, 1918-22	p. 182
The Re-Shaping of Politics, 1922-4	p. 184
Baldwin and the General Strike of 1926	p. 186
The Second Labour Government, 1929-31	p. 190
Politics Under the National Government, 1931-9	p. 192
The Twentieth-Century Monarchy	p. 195
The Re-Shaping of the United Kingdom
Ireland: The First World War and the Easter Rising of 1916	p. 200
Ireland's War of Independence	p. 202
Ireland Partitioned, 1920-39	p. 208
The British Commonwealth and Empire Between the World Wars
The Impact of the First World War	p. 215
Towards Indian Independence	p. 217
The Problems of the Middle East	p. 222
The White Dominions	p. 228
The African Colonies	p. 231
British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939
The Peace Treaties of 1919	p. 235
Britain's Defence Problems	p. 241
The Danger from Japan and Italy	p. 247
The Crisis over Czechoslovakia	p. 251
The Undermining of Appeasement	p. 254
Conclusion	p. 257
Index	p. 261
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