Hamish Fraser, Callum G. Brown

Britain Since 1707 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

From Queen Anne to Gordon Brown, this wide-ranging and accessible book provides a complete and up-to-date history of Britain. Offering a coherent account of the evolution of the nation and its people, it will be essential reading for all students of British history

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317867500
• Artikelnr.: 41214497

Autorenporträt

Callum G. Brown is professor of religious and cultural history at the University of Dundee. He is the author of eight books including Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain (2006), Postmodernism for Historians (2004) and The Death of Christian Britain (2001).

W. Hamish Fraser was professor of modern history at the University of Strathclyde. His publications include A History of British Trade Unionism 1700-1998 (1999) and The Coming of the Mass Market (1981), and he has also edited volumes on the histories of Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Part 1: Introduction. Ch 1 Approaches to Britain's history. Part
2: An Uncertain Stability, 1707-1779. Ch 2. The political system. Ch 3.
Power and society in rural Britain. Ch 4. Urban Life. Ch 5. The
Enlightenment and Gender. Ch 6. The British abroad. Part 3: The
Industrialising Nation 1780-1829. Ch 7. The Industrial Revolution. Ch 8.
The social revolution. Ch 9. Running the state. Ch 10. Britain at war. Ch.
11. Challenges to the political system. Part 4. The Dominant Nation
1830-1879. Ch. 12. The making of an urban society. Ch 13. The Victorian
economy. Ch 14. Class, gender and religion. Ch 15. Responses to industrial
change. Ch 16. Politics in transition. Ch 17. The growth of the state. Ch
18. Democratic pressures. Part 5: The Imperial Heyday 1880 - 1918. Ch 19.
Britain and its Empire. Ch 20. The late-Victorian and war economy. Ch 21.
Intellectual ferment. Ch 22. People, society and culture. Ch 23. Political
Change 1880-1901. Ch 24. Edwardian politics 1901-1914. Ch 25. The British
road to war. Ch 26. The First World War. Part 6: War and the End of Empire
1919-1963. Ch 27. The economy in peace and war. Ch 28. Political change
1919-1939. Ch 29. The Second World War. Ch 30. People, society and culture
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