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Preface | |
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War and Society | |
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The War of the League of Augsburg | |
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The Financial Revolution | |
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The Politics of War and Peace | |
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The War of the Spanish Succession | |
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The Politics of Victory | |
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The New World of Trade | |
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The Social Pyramid | |
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The Augustan Age | |
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Marriage, Courtship, and the Family | |
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The Act of Union with Scotland | |
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The Treaty of Utrecht | |
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The Hanoverian Succession | |
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Further Reading | |
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An Age Of Stability: 1714-1760 | |
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The Achievement of Political Stability | |
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The Winning of an Empire | |
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The Search for an Ordered Culture | |
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The People and Their Rulers | |
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Further Reading | |
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The Economic, And Social Transformation Of England: 1761-1815 | |
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More People and More Food | |
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The Industrial Revolution | |
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Further Reading | |
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The Intellectual Transformation | |
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The Church of England | |
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The Awakening of Dissent | |
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Evangelicalism in the Church of England | |
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The Oxford Movement | |
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Romanticism | |
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The Spirit of Rationalism | |
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Further Reading | |
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Politics In The Reign Of George III | |
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George III's Political Apprenticeship: 1760-1770 | |
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The American Revolution: 1770-1783 | |
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The Political Crisis of 1782-1784 | |
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The Ascendancy of Pitt the Younger: 1784-1806 | |
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Royal Maladies and Royal Decline | |
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Further Reading | |
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Diplomacy and War In The Age Of Revolution | |
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The French Revolutionary Wars | |
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Castlereagh and the Reconstruction of Europe | |
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The Foreign Policy of George Canning | |
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Lord Palmerston at the Foreign Office | |
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The Crimean War | |
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Further Reading | |
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Conservatism, Liberalism, and Reform | |
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Conservative Toryism | |
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Liberal Toryism | |
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The Reform Act of 1832 | |
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Chartism and the Anti-Corn Law League | |
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The Beginnings of a Welfare State | |
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Further Reading | |
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An Age Of Prosperity | |
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The Crystal Palace: Mid-Victorian Cornucopia | |
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The Pursuit of Comfort: Victorian Society | |
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The Victorian Social Consensus | |
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The Formation of the Liberal Party | |
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The Reform Act of 1867 | |
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Disraeli versus Gladstone | |
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Further Reading | |
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Victorianism | |
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The Conquests of Science | |
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Religion and Doubt | |
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Morals and Mores | |
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Tastes and Moods | |
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Further Reading | |
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The British Empire | |
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Pax Britannica | |
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The Self-governing Dominions | |
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India and Beyond | |
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The Scramble for Africa | |
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Imperialism and Empire | |
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Further Reading | |
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An Age Of Crisis: 1873-1914 | |
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A Flagging Colossus | |
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The Impoverished | |
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The Emergence of Labor | |
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Seventeen Years of Conservative Rule | |
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The Liberals' Chance | |
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Women, Workers, and Tories | |
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Further Reading | |
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Britain And World War I | |
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Why England Went to War | |
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A Confusion of Strategies: 1914-1915 | |
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The Home Front | |
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The Western Front: 1916-1918 | |
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The Coupon Election and the Peace of Versailles | |
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The Irish War of Independence: 1916-1921 | |
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Further Reading | |
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Britain Between The Wars | |
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The Economy | |
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Unemployment, Poverty, and Inequality | |
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The Rise of Labour and the Decline of the Liberals | |
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The Ascendant Tories | |
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Progress and Disillusionment | |
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Further Reading | |
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Britain And World War II | |
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The Coming of War | |
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The Battle for Survival | |
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The Mediterranean Strategy | |
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War in the Far-Flung Empire | |
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France | |
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Liberated, Germany Defeated | |
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The Citizens' War | |
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The Impact of War | |
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Further Reading | |
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Life In Socialist Britain | |
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Technology and Wealth | |
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Freedom and Authority | |
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Equality and Inequality | |
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Truth and Beauty | |
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The Poor Will Always Be with Us | |
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The Contented and Angry 1950s, The Swinging 1960s | |
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The Winter of Our Discontent | |
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Further Reading | |
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Socialist Britain: 1945-2007 | |
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The Commitment to Socialism: 1945-1951 | |
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Years of Affluence and Tory Rule: 1951-1964 | |
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The Collapse of the Empire | |
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The Wilson Era and the Problem of Inflation | |
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Edward Heath at the Helm: 1970-1974 | |
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Wilson and Callaghan: 1974-1979 | |
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Margaret Thatcher's Eleven-Year Rule | |
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The Fall of the Iron Lady | |
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Blatcherism: Blair in Power | |
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Further Reading | |
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Appendix | |
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Index | |