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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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