The new edition of this best-selling text includes a new section on the final years of the Labour government after Blair's resignation and a new chapter on the subsequent Coalition and Conservative governments. It is the ideal companion for students taking a first-level course in modern British History, as well as for undergraduates in History.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. - Britain Under the Tories 1815-30. - Parliament and the Great Reform Act of 1832. - Whig Reforms and Failures 1833-41. -Chartism. - Sir Robert Peel, the Conservatives and the Corn Laws 1830-46. - Domestic Affairs 1846-67: Russell, Gladstone, Disraeli and the Reform Act of 1867. - Lord Palmerston and Foreign Affairs 1830-65. - The Crimean War 1854-56. - Britain, India and the Mutiny of 1857. - Standards of Living and Social Reform: Factories, Mines, Public Health and Education. - Gladstone' s First Ministry 1868-74. - Disraeli and the Conservatives in Power 1874-80. - Victorian Prosperity and Depression. - Gladstone and Salisbury 1880-95. - Ten Years of Conservative Rule 1895-1905. - The Growth of the Trade Unions and the Labour Party to 1914. - The State and the People from the 1890s to 1939. - The Liberals in Power 1905-14. - Britain, the First World War and its Aftermath. - Politics in Confusion 1918-24. - Baldwin, the Conservatives and the General Strike. - Political and Economic Crises, 1929-39: The Second Labour Government (1929-31), the World Economic Crisis and the National Governments. - Britain and the Problems of Empire Between the Wars. - Appeasement and the Outbreak of the Second World War: Foreign Affairs 1931-39. - Britain and the Second World War 1939-45. - Labour in Power: the Attlee Governments 1945-51. - The Rise and Fall of Consensus 1951-79. - The State of the People: Social and Cultural Change Since 1945. - Britain and its Parts: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. - Britain and Her Place in the World After 1945. - Britain and the End of the Empire. - Thatcherism and the New Right 1979-97. - Labour in Opposition and in Power, 1979-2010. - The Conservatives in Opposition (1997-2010) and in Coalition (2010-2015).
