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Mastering Modern British History Norman Lowe

Mastering Modern British History By Norman Lowe

Mastering Modern British History by Norman Lowe


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This third edition brings the story of British history up to the general election of 1997, the end of the Thatcherite era and 18 years of Conservative domination. The text is specifically designed to help A Level students and undergraduates and also contains A Level-style questions.

Mastering Modern British History Summary

Mastering Modern British History by Norman Lowe

The third edition of this text brings the story of British history up to the general election of 1997, the end of the Thatcherite era and the 18-year period of Conservative domination. This edition is specifically designed to help Advanced Level students and undergraduates; all the chapters contain new material, taking into account the latest research and the most recent interpretations, and there are new chapters and sections. The book contains A Level style-questions, some of which are taken from A Level papers. The general reader may also find the book informative and should find the source material enlightening.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Britain Under the Tories 1815-1830 - Foreign Affairs 1815-30 - Parliament and the Great Reform Act of 1832 - Whig Reforms and Failures 1833-41 - Chartism - Sir Robert Peel. The Conservatives and the Corn Laws 1930-46 - Domestic Affairs 1946-67: 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 - Social Reform: Factories, Mines, Public Health and Education - Gladstone's First Ministry 1868-74 - Disraeli and the Conservatives in Power 1874-80 - Victorian Prosperity and Depression - Gladstone and Salisbury 1880-95 - Ten Years of Conservative Rule 1895-1905 - The Dominions: Canada, Australia and New Zealand Before 1914 - The Growth of the Trade Unions and the Labour Party to 1914 - The State and the People from the 1890's 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 - 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 1931-39 - Britain and the Second World War 1939-45 - Labour in Power: the Attlee Governments 1945-51 - The Rise and Fall of Consensus 1951-79 - Britain and its Parts: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales - Britain and her Place in the World after 1945 - Thatcherism and the New Right 1979-97

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Mastering Modern British History by Norman Lowe
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
19980630
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