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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 | |