List of Figures viii
List of Tables xi
List of Maps xii
List of Biographies xiii
Preface xiv
Acknowledgments xix
Part I: Uniting the Kingdoms 1
Chapter 1: The British Isles in 1714 3
Chapter 2: A New Beginning, 1714–62 37
Chapter 3: War and Revolution, 1763–1814 65
Part II: The British Century 91
Chapter 4: A United Kingdom, 1815 93
Chapter 5: Reform, 1816–41 123
Chapter 6: Imperial Britain, 1842–84 150
Chapter 7: New Century, 1885–1913 181
Part III: Dividing the Kingdoms 211
Chapter 8: The United Kingdom, 1914 213
Chapter 9: War and Peace and War, 1915–39 240
Chapter 10: The Warfare and Welfare State, 1940–79 271
Chapter 11: “New” Britain, 1980–2008 304
Chapter 0: The Transformation of Britain 1688–1713
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Notes 334
Chronology 352
Glossary 357
Select Bibliography 365
List of Prime Ministers 380
Genealogy of the Royal Family 383
Index 385
Ellis Wasson teaches at Tower Hill School in Wilmington and the University of Delaware. He is the author of Whig Renaissance: Lord Althorp and the Whig Party 1782-1845 (1987), Born to Rule: British Political Elites (2000) and Aristocracy and the Modern World (2006) and has published numerous articles on the history of British politics and European landed society.
"Ellis Wasson's history of modern Britain is written with style and wit, with insight and subtlety. He combines wide reading with clarity of exposition, and has a rare ability to use telling example and personal stories to explain general points. His book offers an outstanding introduction to British history in all its guises - political, social, economic, cultural and intellectual - and brings alive another society." ?Martin Daunton, University of Cambridge "Drawing on a vast range of recent scholarship in disparate fields ? including politics, society, culture, national identity, economics, gender and religion ? this carefully crafted volume provides a remarkably accessible yet academically significant overview of Britain?s last 300 years. Attractively jargon free and peppered with well-chosen anecdotes and biographical details, it is one of those rare books that will prove invaluable to students and experts alike." ?Phillip Salmon, The History of Parliament "It is an extraordinarily well-organized account; cleverly, even slyly, written to engage students at all levels. Wasson?s felicity with recent scholarship makes this the best Modern Britain text to appear in decades." ?Ronald K. Huch, Eastern Kentucky University
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