Bronstein / Harris Empire, State, and Society

Britain since 1830
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5698-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Empire, State, and Society assesses the external andinternal forces behind Britain's transformation from globalsuperpower to its current position in the twenty-first century. Theauthors provide an accessible and balanced introduction, which isthoughtfully organized for ease of use for both students andteachers.
* Offers a crucial comparative dimension which sets theexperience of Britain alongside that of twenty-first-centurysuperpower, the United States of America
* Draws on recent scholarship to provide a highly currentperspective
* Organised to allow professors to assign readings with more orless depth as student abilities and course lengths allow
* Written in a style that is wholly accessible and exciting forundergraduates in both the US and the UK

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bronstein, Jamie L.

Harris, Andrew T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Britain to 1830 4
2 Universal Suffrage and No Surrender: Politics at Home andAbroad, 1830-1867 30
3 Dark Satanic Mills? Economic and Social Change,1830-1867 52
4 Utilitarians, Evangelicals, and Empire: Intellectual andCultural Developments, 1830-1867 70
5 Democracy and Empire: Politics, 1867-1910 91
6 The Decline of the Aristocracy: Economic and Social Change,1867-1910 110
7 Faith and Doubt? Cultural Change, 1867-1910 125
8 In Flanders Fields: Britain and the Great War, 1910-1918147
9 Nationalism and Depression: Politics, Economics, and SocialChange, 1919-1939 168
10 Culture and Ideas between the Wars, 1919-1939 191
11 London Burning: Britain in the Second WorldWar 206
12 Winds of Change: Politics, 1945-1979 222
13 Building a Welfare State: Society and the Economy,1945-1979 242
14 Meet the Beatles: Cultural and Intellectual Developments,1945-1979 259
15 From Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia: Politics,1979-2007 277
16 Whither Britain? Society and Culture since 1979 296
Appendix: Reigns and Ministries since 1830 312
Bibliography 315
Index 330

Über Autor(innen)

Jamie L. Bronstein is Professor of History at New MexicoState University. She is the author of three books: Land Reformand Working-Class Experience in Britain and the United States,1800-1862 (1999), Caught in the Machinery: WorkplaceAccidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain(2008), and Transatlantic Radical: John Francis Bray(2009).
Andrew T. Harris is Associate Provostfor Faculty Affairs at Bridgewater State University. He is theauthor of Policing the City: Crime and Legal Authority inLondon, 1780-1840 (2004).