Book Cover; Title; Contents; Tables; Introduction; The Victorian inheritance; The mid-century years; After equipoise: urban problems, 1870 1900; Industrial change and the countryside, 1830 1951; The challenge from the left; Edwardian England and the Liberal reforms; The Great War, 1914 18; The inter-war years, 1918 39; War and the coming of the Welfare State; Envoi; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
Summary
An essential introduction to the effects of industrialisation on British society, from Queen Victoria's reign to the birth of the Welfare State in the 1940s. It includes sections on the Victorian inheritance and the two world wars
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-291) and index
