DESCRIPTION:
This volume is a comprehensive AS and A Level history text on
19th-century and early 20th-century Britain, written by a team of experienced
teachers who are also examiners. Topics covered include the Great Reform Act of
1832; British foreign policy in the Age of Palmerston; economic and social
history; and Britain and the origins of the World War I.
CONTENTS:
Britain 1815-1918 - a synoptic assessment
- The Tory Party 1815-1830
-
British Foreign Policy, 1815-1846
- The Great Reform Act of 1832
- The Whigs,
1833-1841
- Sir Robert Peel and the Tory/Conservative Party, 1830-1846
-
Chartism
- Economic change 1815-1846 - the growth of railways
- British domestic
politics, 1846-1868
- British foreign policy in the Age of Palmerston,
1846-1868
- A mid-Victorian boom? Economic and Social history 1846-1868
-
Gladstone and the Liberal Party
- The Conservative Party of Disraeli and
Salisbury, 1868-1895
- Ireland and British politics, 1868-1894
- Foreign and
imperial policy, 1868-1895
- Social and economic change, 1868-1896
- The era of
Conservative domination and the rise of Labour, 1895-1906
- Joseph Chamberlain
and the Empire, 1895-1905
- Ireland and British politics, 1895-1922
- The
Liberals in power, 1905-1915
- Britain and the origins of the First World War,
1898-1914
- The political, social and economic impact, 1914-1918
- British
economy and society, 1896-1914 -challenged and transformed?
SUBJECT CLASSIFICATIONS [BIC]:
British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBCR]
British & Irish history: from c 1900 - [HBCW]
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