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| The Age of Improvement: 1830 to 1851 | |
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| Reform or Revolution? | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville and the Britain of 1830 | |
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| The Demand for Constitutional Reform | |
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| The Great Reform Bill Significance and Aftermath | |
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| The Railway Age | |
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| The People Industry and Banking | |
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| Transportation Working Conditions | |
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| The Curious Years of Laissez-Faire Whigs and Tories | |
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| The Chartists | |
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| The Corn Law Reformers Peel and Repeal | |
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| The Irish Famine | |
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| The Trend Toward Laissez-Faire | |
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| The Trend Toward State Intervention | |
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| The Victorian Regulatory State | |
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| The Church and Education | |
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| Lord Palmerston's World | |
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| Britain's Place in the World | |
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| The Foreign Policy of Palmerston | |
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| Anglo-American and Anglo-Chinese Relations | |
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| Palmerston Again | |
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| The Mid-Victorian Years: 1851 to 1873 | |
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| Prosperity, Propriety, and Progress | |
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| The Age of Prosperity | |
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| The Victorian City Victorian Morality | |
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| The Cult of Respectability | |
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| The Victorian Gentleman | |
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| The Critics of Victorianism | |
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| War Drums Sound Afar | |
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| The Crimean War American | |
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| Division and German Unification | |
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| The Sepoy Mutiny | |
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| The Mid-Victorian Empire | |
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| The Reform Bill of 1867: Causes and Consequences Prelude to Reform | |
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| The Reform Bills | |
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| The First Gladstone Ministry | |
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| The Late-Victorian Years: 1873 to 1900 | |
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| Disraeli and Gladstone | |
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| The Curious "Great Depression" | |
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| Liberals and Conservatives | |
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| The Disraeli Ministry of 1874-1880 | |
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| Gladstone's Second Ministry (1880-1885) | |
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| The Irish Question | |
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| The Nineteenth-Century Background | |
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| The Rise of Parnell | |
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| The First Home Rule Bill | |
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| The Second Home Rule Bill | |
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| The High Tide of Empire | |
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| The Causes of Imperialism | |
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| Imperialism in Action | |
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| The Role of Joseph Chamberlain | |
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| The Boer War | |
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| Society and Social Reform Technological Advances | |
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| The Social Structure | |
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| The Status of Women Religion and Leisure | |
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| The Decline of Laissez-Faire | |
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| Social Reform and Politics | |
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| The Early Twentieth Century: 1900 to 1924 | |
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| The Rocky Road to the Welfare State | |
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| Edwardian Prosperity | |
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| The Cultural Revival | |
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| The Conservative Decline (1900-1905) | |
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| The Liberal Revival (1905-1908) | |
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| Asquith, Churchill, and Lloyd George | |
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| The Revolt of the Peers | |
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| The Twentieth-Century Constitution | |
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| Suffragettes and Syndicalists Ireland Again | |
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| The Roundabout Road to War | |
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| The Web of Diplomacy | |
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| The Triple Entente Anglo-German Rivalry | |
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| The Lamps Go Out | |
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| Britain and World War I | |
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| The Fighting Fronts (1914-1915) | |
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| The Home Front (1914-1915) | |
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| The Rise of Lloyd George War on Sea and Land (1915-1917) | |
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| The End of the War | |
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| The Consequences of the Peace | |
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| The Election of 1918 | |
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| Lloyd George at Paris | |
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| A Solution for Ireland | |
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| The Twenties: Economy and Society | |
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| The Fall of Lloyd George | |
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| The First Labour Government | |
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| The Shadow of Depression and War: 1924 to 1956 | |
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| The False Dawn and the Great Depression | |
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| The General Strike and After | |
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| The Spirit of Locarno | |
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| The Second Labour Government | |
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| The National Government | |
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| The Depression and British Society Recovery | |
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| The Storm Gathers Anew | |
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| The Rise of Totalitarianism | |
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| The Election of 1935 | |
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| The Abdication Steps Toward War | |
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| The Road to Munich | |
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| The End of Appeasement | |
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| The Age of Churchill | |
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| The "Phoney War" Churchill Becomes Prime Minister | |
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| The Battle of Britain | |
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| The War Economy Forging the Grand Alliance | |
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| The Road to Victory | |
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| Social Security and International Insecurity | |
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| The General Election of 1945 | |
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| Nationalization and Social Security | |
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| Austerity Imperial Twilight: Asia and the Middle East | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| The Elections of 1950 and 1951 | |
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| The End of Austerity Diplomatic Achievements | |
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| Post Imperial Britain: 1956-1979 | |
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| The Decline of Empire and the Mood of the 1960s | |
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| Suez and After Twilight of Empire: Africa | |
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| The Macmillan Era Troubles of the Early 1960s | |
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| The First Move to Join Europe | |
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| The Elections of 1964 and 1966 | |
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| The Perils of the Pound | |
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| The Permissive Society | |
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| The Stormy 1970s: The Age of Stagflation | |
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| The General Election of 1970 | |
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| Conservative Reform Britain Joins the EEC | |
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| The Northern Ireland Question Economic Dilemmas | |
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| The General Elections of 1974 | |
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| The Callaghan Years (1976-1979) | |
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| Contemporary Britain: Since 1979 | |
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| The Thatcher Era and After (19791997) | |
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| The First Years (1979-1982) | |
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| The Split in the Labour Party | |
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| The Falkland Islands War (1982) | |
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| Privatization Education, Health, and Housing | |
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| The Northern Ireland Question Once More | |
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| The General Election of 1987 | |
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| Thatcher's Last Years (1987-1990) | |
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| The Election of 1992 | |
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| The Government of John Major (1990-1997) | |
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| Entering the 21st Century: The Tony Blair Era | |
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| The General Election of 1997 | |
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| The Blair Honeymoon | |
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| The Federalization of the United Kingdom Prospect and Retrospect | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |