(Ebook) Mastering modern British history by Lowe, Norman ISBN 9781137603876, 1137603879

(Ebook) Mastering modern British history by Lowe, Norman ISBN 9781137603876, 1137603879

Introduction -- Britain under the Torres, 1815-30 -- Parliament and the Great Reform Act of 1832 -- Whig reforms and failures 1833-41 -- Cartism -- Sir Robert Peel, the conservatives and the Corn Laws, 1930-46 -- Domestic affairs, 1846-67: Russell, Gladstone, Disraeli and the Reform Act of 1867 -- Lord Palmerston and foreign affairs, 1830-65 -- The Crimean War, 1854-56 -- Britain, India and the Mutiny of 1857 -- Standards of living and social reform: factories, mines, public health, education, leisure, religion -- Gladstone's First Ministry, 1868-74 -- Disraeli and the conservatives in power, 1874-80 -- Victorian prosperity and depression -- Gladestone and Salisbury, 1880-95 -- Ten years of conservative rule, 1895-1905 -- 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, 1924-29 -- Political and Economic Cases, 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, 1931-9 -- 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 state of the people: social and cultural change since 1945 -- Britain and its parts: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales -- Britain and its place in the world after 1945 -- Britain and the end of empire -- Thatcherism and the new right, 1979-97 -- The labour party in opposition and the Blair/Brown years 1979-2010 -- The conservatives in opposition (1997-2010), in coalition (2010-2015), and after.;This edition provides in-dept analysis of British history from 1815 to present (2015).