| Description |
1 online resource (704 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Focus on; List of timelines; List of tables; List of maps; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; part 1 Introduction; 1 Approaches to Britain's history; Images of Britain; Language of the past; The disputed British past; Political history: putting the Great in Britain; Labour and social history; Economic history; Cultural history; PART 2 An uncertain stability 1707-79; 2 The political system; The making of Great Britain; Politics and power; Whigs and Tories; Queen Anne's government; The Walpole era; Pelham to Pitt; George III and Lord Bute; Lord North |
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3 Power and society in rural BritainPopulation and economy; Church and religion; Social relations; 4 Urban life; Town and city; Luxury and consumption; Social rank and culture; 5 The Enlightenment and gender; The nature of the Enlightenment; The Enlightenment and gender; 6 The British abroad; Early imperial expansion; Canada; India; The Pacific; American rebellion; Ireland; PART 3 The industrialising nation 1780-1829; 7 The Industrial Revolution; Economic change; Causes of change; Patterns of work; Agriculture; 8 The social revolution; The birth of class; Gender relations |
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The standard of living debateHousing and health; 9 Running the state; From North to Pitt; Pitt the Younger; War with France; Ireland and Union; Addington to Liverpool; The Liverpool ministry; Catholic Emancipation; 10 Britain at war; Out of isolation; The first coalition; The second coalition; The third coalition; Congress of Europe; 11 Challenges to the political system; Pressures for reform; The impact of the French Revolution; Ireland; Radicalism revives; PART 4 The dominant nation 1830-79; 12 The making of an urban society; Urban conditions; Tackling urban problems |
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Poverty, policing and children13 The Victorian economy; The steam age; Economic organisation; Blight and depression in Ireland and Scotland; Agricultural improvement and society; 14 Class, gender and religion; Class; Gender; Religion; 15 Responses to industrial change; Resistance to change; The British experience; Owenite unionism; New attitudes; 16 Politics in transition; Whig reform; Peel's government; Politics without cohesion; Palmerston's government; Liberals, Tories and reform; Gladstone's first ministry; Disraelian Conservatism; 17 The growth of the state; How the state grew |
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The Poor LawPublic health; Factory and mines' reform; Education; 18 Democratic pressures; Parliamentary reform; The factory movement; Chartism; The Anti-Corn Law League; Administrative reform; The Second Reform Act; PART 5 The imperial heyday 1880-1918; 19 Britain and its Empire; Approaching empire and imperialism; Indian revolt, African scramble; Explanations of empire; Testing the explanations; Political considerations; The South African War; 20 The late-Victorian and war economy; Economic contradictions; Did the late- Victorian economy fail?; Rural society and economy |
| Summary |
Britain since 1707 is the first single-volume book to cover the complex and multi-layered history of Great Britain from its inception until 2007. Bringing together political, economic, social and cultural history, the book offers a reliable and balanced account of the nation over a 300 year period. It looks at major developments - such as the Enlightenment, the growth of democracy and gender change - while also tracing the distinctive experience of different, the book's additional features include: social and ethnic groups through the decades. Fully integrating Scotland |
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The war economy 1914-19 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056808
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Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056819
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Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056824
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| Subject |
Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Callum G., 1953-
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| ISBN |
9781317867500 |
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1317867505 |
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