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| List of Plates | |
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| List of Figures and Maps | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| England 1783-1846: A Preview | |
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| The Economy: Crisis and Survival | |
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| An Old or New Regime? | |
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| The Politics of Theatre and the Theatre of Politics | |
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| Politics in the Time of Pitt and Fox, 1783-1807 | |
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| The Launching of Pitt and the Destruction of Fox | |
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| Party Government or Broad Bottom? | |
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| The French Revolution and Political Realignment | |
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| 'Pitt's Terror' | |
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| Irish Problems | |
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| French Wars | |
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| The Fall of Pitt | |
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| Peace and War | |
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| Pittism and Plutocracy: The Social and Psychological Foundations | |
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| Court Whigs, Country Whigs, and the Conservative Reaction | |
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| Virtuous Economics | |
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| A New Vision of Government | |
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| Class Distinctions and Rentier Capitalism | |
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| The Late Hanoverian Aristocracy: Domination or Accommodation? | |
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| Commerce and the Quasi-Professions | |
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| Business Classes | |
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| Producers and Dealers: The Makings of a Lesser-Middle Class? | |
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| Civic Cultures: A Literary and Philosophical People | |
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| The Evangelical Revival | |
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| Slavery and National Mission: The Politics of Virtue | |
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| The Politics of Pittism: Rhetoric and Reality | |
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| Politics in the Time of Liverpool and Canning, 1807-1827 | |
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| The Development of Two-Party Politics? | |
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| The Narrative Resumed: All-Out Warfare | |
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| Liberation and Liberalism | |
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| Victory, the Second Empire, and a Mistaken Case of National Identity | |
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| 'A Malady of Peace': The Foundations of Monetary Policy | |
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| Rethinking the Corn Laws | |
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| The Squires' Revolt | |
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| 'Never a Controversial Cabinet': Lord Liverpool's System of Politics | |
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| The Reshuffle of 1821-1823 and the Origins of Cabinet Government | |
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| Divided Cabinets: Foreign and Economic Policies | |
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| Ruling Ideologies | |
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| 'A Love of System' | |
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| Liberal Toryism versus High Toryism | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| Natural Theology in a Fallen World | |
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| The Paradoxes of Political Economy | |
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| Philosophic Whiggism | |
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| The Status of Women and Ideas about Gender | |
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| The Crisis of the Old Order, 1827-1832 | |
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| Coalition and the Canningite Flame | |
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| The Goderich File | |
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| The First Blow: Test and Corporation Act Repeal | |
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| The Second Blow: Catholic Emancipation | |
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| The Emancipation of Peel | |
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| Money and the Millennium | |
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| Ultra Tory Backlash | |
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| The Fall of the Pittite Regime | |
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| The Struggle for Reform | |
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| A Middle-Class Bill, or a case of Landed Reaction? | |
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| The Status of the Borough Freeholders | |
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| Split Voting, Straight Voting, and Plumping | |
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| Contesting Mechanical Philosophy | |
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| The Evolutionary Moment: The Scientific Threat to Belief | |
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| From Romantic Science to Peelite Compromise | |
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| From Unitarianism to Liberal Anglicanism | |
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| The Oxford Movement | |
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| The Middle Ages, the 'Olden Time', and Ideas of Nation | |
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| From Romanticism to Socialism | |
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| Politics in the Time of Melbourne and Peel, 1833-1846 | |
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| From Reform to Repeal: The Narrative Resumed | |
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| The Analysis Resumed: Party Politics without Parties | |
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| The Politics of Militant Dissent | |
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| Clouds in the West | |
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| Towards Free Trade: 'Mighty Athlete' or 'Wounded Giant'? | |
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| Towards the Pax Britannica | |
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| Imperial Onset | |
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| The Condition and Reconditioning of England | |
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| Social Crisis | |
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| The Origins of Social Policy | |
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| 'System, Method, Science, Economy': Defining the Liberal State | |
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| Chartism | |
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| Class and Community | |
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| Mad Metropolis | |
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| Afterwards: 'There are no Barbarians any Longer' | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |