IDENTITY, INDUSTRY AND EMPIRE, 1780-1914
Section 1: Early Industrial Britain, c1780-1850
Introduction
Chapter 1: A ‘Greater Britain’ in 1780?
Chapter 2: The Demographic Revolution in Britain and Ireland
Chapter 3: Aristocracy rampant?
Chapter 4: The role and impact of the middle classes in British society
Chapter 5: Industrial Revolution or Industrial Evolution?
Chapter 6: Urban Growth and Regional Diversity
Chapter 7: Agriculture in the Early Industrial Age
Chapter 8: Industrialism and Conflict
Section 2: Britainat war and peace, 1780-1815
Introduction
Chapter 9: Government in crisis: the impact of the war for America
Chapter 10: A ‘National Revival’ under the Younger Pitt, 1783-93
Chapter 11: Britain in the 1790s: the impact of the French Revolution
Chapter 12: The Younger Pitt & the French Revolutionary Wars, 1793-1801
Chapter 13: The Napoleonic Wars, 1803-15
Chapter 14: John Bull’s other Island: Ireland and Union, 1780-1815
Chapter 15: Paying for War: government, politics and religion in early nineteenth-century Britain
Section 3:A new political era, 1815-46
Introduction
Chapter 16: The Age of Lord Liverpool I: Radicalism, Reform and Repression, 1815-22
Chapter 17: The Age of Lord Liverpool II: Liberal Toryism, 1822-27?
Chapter 18: Congresses and Conflicts: Britain in Europe, 1815-30
Chapter 19: Matters Imperial, c1790-c1850
Chapter 20: The crisis of Toryism and the road to Reform, 1827-32
Chapter 21: The reality of Reform: the new order and its critics
Chapter 22: The Age of Peel? Policies and Parties, 1832-46
Section 4:A Mature Industrial Society, c1850-1914
Introduction
Chapter 23: A ‘Second Industrial Revolution’?: British economic performance,
1850-80
Chapter 24: Social structure and social change in a maturing economy
Chapter 25: Identities, Aspirations and Gender
Chapter 26: Free Trade, Laissez-faire and the changing role the state, c1830-80
Chapter 27: Supremacy under threat? Economy and Society, 1880-1914
Chapter 28: The State, Charity and the Poor, c1830-c1900
Chapter 29: Education, Leisure and Society
Section 5:Party, Policy and Diplomacy: 1846-80
Introduction
Chapter 30: Party Politics Confounded, 1846-59
Chapter 31: Parliamentary Reform c1850-1880: Intention and Impact
Chapter 32: Gladstone and the Liberal Party, 1860-80
Chapter 33: Disraeli and the Conservative Party, 1860-80
Chapter 34: Diplomacy and War: the Pax Britannica challenged, c1840-65
Chapter 35: Diplomacy and the Eastern Question, c1865-80
Section 6: Empire, Democracy and the Road to War, 1880-1914.
Introduction
Chapter 36: ‘This vast Empire on which the Sun never sets’: imperial expansion and cultural
icon
Chapter 37: Conservatism in the era of Salisbury
Chapter 38: The Liberal party, 1880-1914: sundered and saved?
Chapter 39: Votes for Women
Chapter 40: The impact of Ireland on British Politics, 1880-1914
Chapter 41: Labour, welfare and social conflict, 1900-14
Chapter 42: A greater need for security: Diplomacy and alliance systems, 1880-1902
Chapter 43: An accidental catastrophe? The origins of the First World War
Chapter 44: Epilogue
This new book from Eric Evans will survey every aspect of the period in which Britain was transformed into the worlds first industrial power. Ranging across the embryonic empire, the Church, education, health, finance and rural and urban life, The Making of Modern Britain is an unparalleled account of Britains rise to superpower status.
Eric Evans is Professor Emeritus of History at Lancaster University and author of a number of seminal books on the political and social history of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain, including The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870(third edition 2001) and Britain Before the Reform Act (second edition 2008).
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