The Peoples of the British Isles: A New History : From 1870 to the Present,9780925065568

The Peoples of the British Isles: A New History : From 1870 to the Present

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780925065568
ISBN10: 0925065560
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Pub. Date: 2002-01-01
Publisher(s): Lyceum Books
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Table of Contents

List of Illustration
ix
List of Maps
xi
Preface xiii
Part I The Decline of Victorian Britain, 1870-1914 1(106)
Troubles in Economy and Society, 1970-1914
3(20)
The Late-Victorian Economy, 1870-1900
4(5)
Edwardian False Dawn, 1900-1914
9(1)
Social Change, l870-1914
10(5)
Working- Class Culture, l870-1914
15(6)
Suggested Reading
21(2)
Crisis of Confidence 1870-1914
23(20)
Scientific Naturalism
23(3)
The New Liberalism
26(3)
Socialism
29(6)
Imperialism
35(3)
Aestheticism
38(3)
Suggested Reading
41(2)
Revival on the ``Celtic Fringe''
43(18)
Wales: Industry, Nonconformity, and Nationalism
43(4)
Scotland: Industry, Liberalism, and Identity
47(2)
Ireland: From the Famine to the Home Rule Movement
49(5)
Ireland: From Home Rule to Cultural Renaissance
54(3)
Ireland: Cultural Renaissance to the Brink of Civil War
57(1)
Suggested Reading
58(3)
Politics and the State, 1867-1914
61(24)
The 1867 Reform Act and the Structure of Politics
61(5)
Gladstone and Disraeli
66(4)
Home Rule and British Politics
70(2)
The Rise of Labour
72(3)
Triumphs and Trials of Liberalism, 1906-1914
75(7)
Suggested Reading
82(3)
Empire and Diplomacy In the Age of Imperialism 1870-1914
85(22)
Great Power Rivalries in the Late Nineteenth Century
85(2)
British Power and Interests in the Late Nineteenth Century
87(3)
Imperial Expansion, 1870-1900
90(6)
The Boer War, 1899-1902
96(3)
The End of Isolation
99(2)
The Drift into War, 1905-1914
101(4)
Suggested Reading
105(2)
Part II An Age of Total War, 1914-1945 107(108)
The Great War, 1914-1918
109(24)
The Course of War, 1914-1916
110(4)
The Combat Experience
114(3)
The Home Front
117(3)
Wartime Politics
120(4)
War's End 1917-1918
124(5)
Counting the Cost
129(2)
Suggested Reading
131(2)
The war and the Celtic Countries: Ireland Leaves the Union, 1914-1923
133(16)
The Impact of the Great War on Scotland and Wales
133(3)
Ireland and the Great War, 1914-1916
136(1)
The Easter Rebellion, 1916
137(2)
The Advent of Sinn Fein
139(2)
Civil War with Britain and the Treaty of 1921
141(2)
Civil War in Ireland, 1922-1923
143(2)
Epilogue: Ireland, 1921-1939
145(2)
Suggested Reading
147(2)
Economy, Society, and Culture Between the wars, 1919-139
149(22)
The British Economy Between the Wars
149(5)
Society Between the Wars
154(5)
Trade Unions, Class Conflict, and the General Strike of 1926
159(1)
Popular Culture
160(5)
High Culture
165(4)
Suggested Reading
169(2)
Politics, Power, the Coming of War,1919-1939
171(22)
The Structure of Politics and Government
171(5)
The Lloyd George Government, 1918-1922
176(2)
MacDonald and Baldwin
178(5)
British Power and Interests Between the Wars
183(5)
Chamberlain and the Coming of War 1937-1939
188(4)
Suggested Reading
192(1)
Britain and World War II
193(22)
Standing Alone, September 1939 to June 1941
193(7)
The Turn of the Tide, June 1941 to January 1943
200(2)
The War at Home
202(4)
Victory, January 1943 to August 1945
206(4)
Counting the Costs
210(2)
Suggested Reading
212(3)
Part III Britain in the Postwar World, 1945-1990 215(108)
Welfare, Affluence and Consensus, 1945-1970
217(24)
Building the Welfare State,1941- 1951
217(7)
The Economy from Austerity to Affluence, 1945-1970
224(4)
Affluent Society
228(6)
The Culture of Austerity and Affluence
234(4)
Suggested Reading
238(3)
Illusions of Power: Politics and Foreign Relations, 1945-1970
241(24)
The Structure of Government and Politics
241(4)
Decline of the Labour Government, 1945-1951
245(6)
The Tory Years, l951-1964
251(3)
Suez and After
254(4)
Labour's Recovery and Fall 1964-1970
258(4)
The General Election of 1970
262(1)
Suggested Reading
263(2)
Economic Decline, Nationality, and Devolution: The Celtic Countries 1945-1980
265(20)
Wales
265(4)
Scotland
269(4)
Ireland
273(2)
Northern Ireland: The Tragic Province Under the Stormont Regime
275(5)
Northern Ireland Under Direct Rule, 1972-1989
280(3)
Suggested Reading
283(2)
Thatcher's Britain 1970-1990
285(24)
Economic Troubles and Industrial Strife in the 1970s
285(1)
The Heath Government, 1970-1974
286(4)
The Labour Governments, 1974-1979
290(2)
Thatcher in Power
292(4)
The Falklands War April-June 1982
296(3)
Reelection and the Second Term, 1983-1989
299(2)
Thatcher's Fall, 1987-1990
301(2)
Thatcher's Britain, the 1980s
303(3)
Suggested Reading
306(3)
Britain from the 1990s to the Millennium
309(14)
The Troubled Times of John Major, 1990-1997
309(3)
Tony Blair and the Rise of ``New Labour''
312(4)
Britain, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998
316(4)
At the Millennium: ``Cool Britannia'' or The End of Britain?
320(2)
Suggested Reading
322(1)
Appendixes 323(6)
A Kings and Queens of Great Britain, 1870-1991
323(2)
B Chief Cabinet Ministers, 1868-1990
325(4)
Index 329

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