For individual or classroom study, this revised 4th edition, brings British history up-to-date with new content on Britain under New Labour since 1997. Taking into account latest research and interpretations, the commentary is informative and enjoyable; the source material stimulating and enlightening. INDICE: Introduction - Britain Under the Tories 1815-30 - Foreign Affairs 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 1854-6 - 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 Dominions: Canada, Australia and New Zealand Before 1914 - 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 Stateof 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 - The Labour Party in Opposition and the Blair Years, 1979-2007 - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20556-7
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 848
- Fecha Publicación: 03/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés