Sources and Debates in Modern British History : 1714 to the Present
ISBN: 9781444333718 | 1444333712
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 1/17/2012
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This sourcebook is designed for undergraduate students taking single-semester survey courses in the modern period. The primary sources illuminate and extend the readers understanding of the themes at the heart of Britains transformation over the course of the last three centuries.
Designed to complement the author's A History of Modern Britain, this collection of primary sources illuminates and augments the study of modern Britain with coverage of political, imperial, and economic history as well as class and cultu... MORE
Designed to complement the author's A History of Modern Britain, this collection of primary sources illuminates and augments the study of modern Britain with coverage of political, imperial, and economic history as well as class and cultu... MORE
| List of Documents | p. xi |
| List of Figures | p. xix |
| Preface | p. xxi |
| Abbreviations | p. xxix |
| The Eighteenth Century | p. 1 |
| State and Empire | p. 3 |
| The Constitution | p. 4 |
| Threats to the Political and Social Order | p. 11 |
| The Sinews of Empire | p. 18 |
| North America | p. 21 |
| India | p. 24 |
| ... MORE | p. 27 |
| Counterfactuals to Consider | p. 28 |
| Economy and Society | p. 29 |
| Honor and Manners | p. 30 |
| The Struggle for Life and Wealth | p. 35 |
| The Poor Law | p. 40 |
| Economic Theory | p. 43 |
| Historians' Debates | p. 51 |
| Counterfactuals to Consider | p. 52 |
| Culture and Identity | p. 53 |
| The Scottish Enlightenment | p. 54 |
| The English Enlightenment | p. 57 |
| Education | p. 62 |
| The Romantic Movement | p. 66 |
| Women | p. 68 |
| Slavery | p. 71 |
| National Identities | p. 76 |
| Historians' Debates | p. 80 |
| Counterfactuals to Consider | p. 81 |
| The Nineteenth Century | p. 83 |
| State and Empire | p. 85 |
| Radicalism and Protest | p. 86 |
| Constitutional Reform 1829-32 | p. 90 |
| Further Parliamentary Reform | p. 97 |
| Party Ideologies | p. 103 |
| The Empire | p. 109 |
| The Origins of World War I | p. 120 |
| Historians' Debates | p. 123 |
| Counterfactuals to Consider | p. 124 |
| Economy and Society | p. 127 |
| Industrialization | p. 128 |
| Urban and Rural Life and Employment during Industrialization | p. 135 |
| Social Position and Money | p. 142 |
| Economic Theory | p. 148 |
| Historians' Debates | p. 156 |
| Counterfactuals to Consider | p. 158 |
| Culture and Identity | p. 159 |
| Women | p. 160 |
| Victorian Thinkers | p. 169 |
| Social Darwinism | p. 177 |
| British Identities | p. 182 |
| Irish Identities | p. 185 |
| Historians' Debates | p. 191 |
| Counterfactuals to Consider | p. 193 |
| The Twentieth Century | p. 195 |
| State and Empire | p. 197 |
| World War I | p. 198 |
| World War II and the Cold War | p. 201 |
| Party Ideologies | p. 211 |
| The European Union | p. 214 |
| Empire to Commonwealth | p. 217 |
| Historians' Debates | p. 227 |
| Counterfactuals to Consider | p. 229 |
| Economy and Society | p. 231 |
| Traditional Society | p. 232 |
| Capitalism at Bay | p. 238 |
| War and Civilian Life | p. 243 |
| The Welfare State | p. 245 |
| HistoriansÆ Debates | p. 253 |
| Counterfactuals to Consider | p. 255 |
| Culture and Identity | p. 257 |
| Women | p. 258 |
| Minorities and Immigration | p. 263 |
| British Identities | p. 271 |
| Irish Identities | p. 280 |
| Historians' Debates | p. 287 |
| Counterfactuals to Consider | p. 289 |
| Bibliography | p. 291 |
| Index | p. 297 |
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Ellis Wasson earned his PhD in British history at Cambridge and teaches at Tower Hill School in Wilmington and the University of Delaware. He is the author of Why 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.
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