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Beschreibung

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.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at [...] These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.

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.

Accompanying online resources for this title can be found at [...] These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.

Über den Autor
Norman Lowe
Zusammenfassung
A-Level and AS History students; British History students; first-year history undergraduates; undergraduates; Foundation course students; Adult Education students.
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).

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Bloomsbury Master Series
Inhalt: 636 S.
ISBN-13: 9781137603876
ISBN-10: 1137603879
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-1-137-60387-6
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lowe, Norman
Auflage: 5. Auflage
Hersteller: Macmillan Education
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Master Series
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 233 x 154 x 45 mm
Von/Mit: Norman Lowe
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.04.2017
Gewicht: 1,13 kg
Artikel-ID: 108128520