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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of tables
- List of illustrations
- List of figures
- Preface to the fifth edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Britain under the Tories, 1815–30
- 3 Parliament and the Great Reform Act of 1832
- 4 Whig reforms and failures 1833–41
- 5 Chartism
- 6 Sir Robert Peel, the Conservatives and the Corn Laws, 1830–46
- 7 Domestic affairs 1846–67: Russell, Gladstone, Disraeli and the Reform Act of 1867
- 8 Lord Palmerston and Foreign Affairs, 1830–65
- 9 The Crimean War, 1854–56
- 10 Britain, India and the Mutiny of 1857
- 11 Standards of living and social reform: factories, mines, public health, education, leisure, religion
- 12 Gladstone’s First Ministry, 1868–74
- 13 Disraeli and the Conservatives in power, 1874–80
- 14 Victorian Prosperity and Depression
- 15 Gladstone and Salisbury, 1880–95
- 16 Ten years of Conservative rule, 1895–1905
- 17 The Growth of the Trade Unions and the Labour Party to 1914
- 18 The State and the People from the 1890s to 1939
- 19 The Liberals in power 1905–14
- 20 Britain, the First World War and its aftermath
- 21 Politics in confusion, 1918–24
- 22 Baldwin, the Conservatives and the General Strike, 1924–29
- 23 Political and Economic Crises, 1929–39: The Second Labour Government (1929–31), the World Economic Crisis and the National Governments
- 24 Britain and the problems of Empire between the wars
- 25 Appeasement and the outbreak of the Second World War: foreign affairs, 1931–9
- 26 Britain and the Second World War, 1939–45
- 27 Labour in power: the Attlee governments, 1945–51
- 28 The rise and fall of consensus, 1951–79
- 29 The state of the people: social and cultural change since 1945
- 30 Britain and its parts: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- 31 Britain and its place in the world after 1945
- 32 Britain and the end of empire
- 33 Thatcherism and the New Right, 1979–97
- 34 The Labour party in opposition and the Blair/Brown years 1979–2010
- 35 The Conservatives in Opposition (1997–2010), in Coalition (2010–2015), and after
- Further Reading
- Index