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Mastering modern British history. Cover Image Book Book

Mastering modern British history.

Lowe, Norman. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780230205567
  • ISBN: 0230205569
  • Physical Description: xxi, 826 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 4th ed. / Norman Lowe.
  • Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 798-817) and index.

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List of maps
xv
List of tables
xvi
List of illustrations
xvii
List of figures
xviii
Preface to the Fourth Edition xix
Acknowledgements xxi
Introduction
1(9)
Prologue: Waterloo
1(1)
Themes of change after 1815
1(9)
Britain under the Tories, 1815-30
10(25)
Summary of events
10(1)
What were the British political parties in 1815, and what did they stand for?
11(2)
Why was there so much discontent and distress among ordinary people after 1815?
13(4)
How was the discontent expressed?
17(4)
What steps did Liverpool's government take to combat the unrest in the period before 1820?
21(2)
Who were the `liberal' Tories and why did Lord Liverpool bring them into the government in 1822-3?
23(2)
What reforms did the `liberal' Tories introduce between 1822 and 1830 to deserve this title?
25(4)
Why did the Tory party disintegrate in 1830?
29(3)
Verdict on the Tories
32(3)
Questions
34(1)
Foreign affairs, 1815-30
35(13)
Summary of events
35(2)
What were the aims of the statesmen who met at Vienna in 1814-15, and to what extent were their aims fulfilled in the Vienna Settlement?
37(3)
What were the aims and achievements of Lord Castlereagh in foreign affairs after the Congress of Vienna (1815)?
40(3)
What were the aims and achievements of Canning in foreign affairs (1822-7), and how did his policies differ from those of Castlereagh?
43(5)
Questions
47(1)
Parliament and the Great Reform Act of 1832
48(13)
Summary of events
48(1)
How are laws made?
48(1)
What was wrong with the system before the Great Reform Act?
49(3)
Why did the demand for reform revive in 1829-30?
52(2)
Why was there so much opposition to reform?
54(1)
The passing of the Bill
55(2)
What were the terms of the Act, and how far did they put right the faults of the system?
57(4)
Questions
60(1)
Whig reforms and failures, 1833-41
61(13)
Summary of events
61(1)
The Whig attitude to reform
62(2)
The first round of reforms: slavery, factories and education (1833)
64(1)
Reform of the Poor Law: the Poor Law Amendment Act (1834)
65(4)
Reform of town government: the Municipal Corporations Act (1835)
69(1)
Other Whig reforms
70(1)
Why did the Whigs lose the 1841 election?
71(3)
Questions
73(1)
Chartism
74(12)
Summary of events
74(1)
Why did the Chartist movement come into existence?
74(2)
How did the Chartist movement begin, and what sort of people joined it?
76(1)
What were the Chartists' aims and how did they hope to achieve them?
77(2)
The three phases of the Chartist movement
79(4)
Why were the Chartists unsuccessful in the 1840s, and what was the significance of the movement?
83(2)
When was the Chartists' political programme achieved?
85(1)
Questions
85(1)
Sir Robert Peel, the Conservatives and the Corn Laws, 1830-46
86(16)
Summary of events
86(1)
Peel and the revival of the Tory/Conservative party
87(2)
What did Peel do to help the British economy?
89(2)
What did Peel do about Britain's social problems?
91(1)
Peel, O'Connell and Ireland
92(1)
The struggle for the repeal of the Corn Laws, 1838-46
93(6)
Was Peel a great statesman who deserves to be remembered as the founder of the modern Conservative party?
99(3)
Questions
101(1)
Domestic affairs, 1846-67: Russell, Gladstone, Disraeli and the Reform Act of 1867
102(13)
Summary of events
102(1)
The Whigs become the Liberal party
103(2)
How successful were the domestic policies of Russell's government of 1846-52?
105(1)
What contribution did Gladstone make to the development of the British economy while he was Chancellor of the Exchequer?
106(2)
Why did the demand for parliamentary reform revive in the early 1860s?
108(2)
What were the stages by which reform was achieved?
110(2)
What were the terms and effects of the 1867 Reform Act?
112(3)
Questions
114(1)
Lord Palmerston and foreign affairs, 1830-65
115(21)
Summary of events
115(2)
What were the principles behind Palmerston's conduct of foreign affairs?
117(1)
Palmerston as Foreign Secretary, 1830-41: how successful was he?
118(6)
Conservative interlude, 1841-6
124(1)
Palmerston at the Foreign Ministry again, 1846-51
125(3)
The final phase: Palmerston as Prime Minister, 1855-65
128(8)
Questions
135(1)
The Crimean War, 1854-6
136(13)
Summary of events
136(1)
What caused the war?
137(5)
Events in the war
142(3)
The Treaty of Paris (1856) and the results of the war
145(4)
Questions
148(1)
Britain, India and the Mutiny of 1857
149(14)
Summary of events
149(1)
How was British power in India extended between 1800 and 1857?
150(5)
What were the causes of the Mutiny?
155(3)
Events in the Mutiny
158(2)
What were the results of the Mutiny?
160(3)
Questions
162(1)
Standards of living and social reform: factories, mines, public health, education, leisure, religion
163(56)
Summary of events
163(1)
The great standard of living debate
164(2)
Why was factory and mine reform necessary?
166(3)
What arguments were used by the opponents of reform?
169(1)
What improvements were made, and why did it take so long for the Acts to become effective?
169(7)
What were the main public health problems in industrial towns?
176(3)
What advances were made in public health during the nineteenth century?
179(4)
What kinds of school were there before 1870, and why was there no state system of elementary education?
183(2)
How and why the government intervened in education
185(5)
Everyday life and leisure in Victorian Britain
190(5)
The position and role of women in Victorian society
195(2)
Victorian women at work
197(2)
The campaign to improve the status of women
199(3)
Religious denominations and practices
202(4)
Religion and politics in England and Ireland, 1820-46
206(2)
Anglicanism: crisis and revival
208(11)
Questions
218(1)
Gladstone's first ministry, 1868-74
219(18)
Summary of events
219(1)
What were Gladstone's principles and aims?
220(4)
Gladstone's domestic reforms: necessary but unpopular
224(4)
Gladstone and Ireland
228(5)
How did Gladstone's foreign policies cause him to become unpopular?
233(1)
Why did the Liberals lose the 1874 general election?
234(3)
Questions
236(1)
Disraeli and the Conservatives in power, 1874-80
237(20)
Summary of events
237(1)
Disraeli's earlier career and his political outlook - Tory Democracy
238(3)
What did Disraeli's government do for working people?
241(2)
What is meant by the term `imperialism', and how successful was Disraeli in pursuing it?
243(5)
The Eastern Question and the Congress of Berlin, 1875-8
248(5)
Why did the Conservatives lose the 1880 general election?
253(2)
Assessment of Disraeli
255(2)
Questions
256(1)
Victorian prosperity and depression
257(15)
Summary of events
257(1)
Illustrate and account for Britain's industrial prosperity in the mid-nineteenth century
257(4)
In what ways and why can Britain be said to have suffered an industrial depression after 1873?
261(5)
What is meant by the term `High Farming' and why was the period 1846-74 one of prosperity for British agriculture?
266(2)
Why and with what results was there a depression in agriculture after 1873?
268(4)
Questions
271(1)
Gladstone and Salisbury, 1880-95
272(31)
Summary of events
272(1)
How did Gladstone try to pacify Ireland between 1880 and 1886, and why did he fail?
273(6)
The Liberals and the Empire
279(4)
What were the domestic achievements of the Liberal government?
283(3)
Why was there so much tension within the Liberal party, 1880-6?
286(2)
What contribution did the Conservatives make to domestic reform, 1886-92?
288(4)
How did the Conservatives deal with the problems of Ireland, 1886-92?
292(2)
Foreign and imperial affairs under the Conservatives
294(4)
The last of Gladstone, 1892-4
298(3)
The Liberals in decline: Lord Rosebery's ministry, 1894-5
301(2)
Questions
302(1)
Ten years of Conservative rule, 1895-1905
303(25)
Summary of events
303(1)
Lord Salisbury and Conservative dominance
304(2)
Joseph Chamberlain and imperialism
306(4)
The Boer War, 1899-1902
310(5)
Foreign affairs, 1895-1905
315(7)
Ireland under the Conservatives
322(1)
What were the achievements of Balfour's government (1902-5), and why had it become so unpopular by 1905?
322(6)
Questions
327(1)
The dominions: Canada, Australia and New Zealand before 1914
328(16)
Summary of events
328(1)
Canada
329(6)
Australia
335(5)
New Zealand
340(4)
Questions
343(1)
The growth of the trade unions and the Labour party to 1914
344(22)
Summary of events
344(1)
Early trade union developments and failures
345(1)
Robert Owen and the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union
346(3)
Show how the `New Model' unions were established in the 1850s, and how they gained legal recognition
349(3)
The `New Unionism' for unskilled workers
352(1)
The unions run into problems during the 1890s
353(3)
What legal problems faced the trade unions in the early twentieth century, and how were they overcome?
356(2)
Syndicalism and trade union militancy
358(1)
The causes of the rise of the Labour party, and the main stages in its development to 1914
359(7)
Questions
365(1)
The state and the people from the 1890s to 1939
366(30)
Summary of events
366(1)
Individualism versus collectivism: the main arguments in the debate
367(5)
Why did the Liberals introduce social reforms, 1906-14?
372(2)
What were the Liberal reforms, and how far did they go towards creating a Welfare State?
374(5)
State social policy between the wars: problems and successes
379(10)
Why was the idea of a planned economy discussed between the wars, and what plans were suggested?
389(3)
The state of the people
392(4)
Questions
395(1)
The Liberals in power, 1905-14
396(32)
Summary of events
396(1)
The New Liberalism
397(1)
The Liberals and South Africa
398(1)
The Liberals and the dispute with the House of Lords
399(5)
Votes for women: suffragists and suffragettes
404(4)
Why did the Liberals' attempts to settle the Irish question fail before 1914?
408(5)
Why was there so much political and industrial unrest between 1909 and 1914, and how did Asquith's government deal with it?
413(1)
The strange death of Liberal England?
414(1)
Liberal defence and foreign policies, 1905-14
415(13)
Questions
427(1)
Britain, the First World War and its aftermath
428(28)
Summary of events
428(2)
Mons to the Somme, 1914-16
430(6)
Lloyd George at the helm
436(3)
The war at sea
439(2)
Vimy Ridge to the armistice, 1917-18
441(4)
Effects of the war on British society
445(7)
Britain and the peace settlement
452(4)
Questions
455(1)
Politics in confusion, 1918-24
456(17)
Summary of events
456(1)
The Lloyd George coalition, 1918-22
457(6)
The Conservatives and tariff reform again
463(1)
The first Labour government (January-October 1924)
463(4)
Why did the Liberal party decline so rapidly?
467(6)
Questions
472(1)
Baldwin, the Conservatives and the General Strike
473(16)
Summary of events
473(1)
The Conservative revival
473(4)
Conservative achievements, 1924-9
477(3)
What caused the General Strike of 1926?
480(3)
The General Strike and its aftermath
483(6)
Questions
488(1)
Political and economic crises, 1929-39: the second Labour government (1929-31), the world economic crisis and the National Governments
489(18)
Summary of events
489(1)
Labour policies at home and abroad
490(1)
How did the economic crisis bring down the Labour government in 1931?
491(4)
The National Government and its attempts to promote recovery
495(6)
Unemployment in the 1930s
501(3)
Baldwin and the Abdication Crisis, 1936
504(3)
Questions
505(2)
Britain and the problems of Empire between the wars
507(14)
Summary of events
507(1)
Britain and her relations with the Commonwealth
507(2)
Events leading up to the partition of Ireland, 1922
509(4)
Relations between Britain and the independent Ireland
513(1)
The Indian struggle for independence
514(4)
Britain and the Middle East mandates
518(3)
Questions
520(1)
Appeasement and the outbreak of the Second World War: foreign affairs, 1931-9
521(19)
Summary of events
521(1)
What was appeasement, and why did Britain follow such a policy?
522(3)
Appeasement in action
525(4)
Munich to the outbreak of war: September 1938 to September 1939
529(6)
Who or what was to blame for the war?
535(5)
Questions
539(1)
Britain and the Second World War, 1939-45
540(30)
Summary of events
540(1)
Early setbacks: Norway and Dunkirk
541(7)
The Battle of Britain (August-September 1940)
548(2)
The Axis offensive widens
550(4)
The war at sea
554(1)
The war in the air
555(2)
The defeat of the Axis powers
557(6)
What were the effects of the war on Britain?
563(7)
Questions
569(1)
Labour in power: the Attlee governments, 1945-51
570(18)
Summary of events
570(1)
The Labour victory of 1945
571(1)
Labour and the Welfare State
572(5)
Why and how did Labour attempt to introduce a planned economy?
577(4)
How successful were the policies of the Labour governments?
581(4)
Why did Labour lose the 1951 general election?
585(3)
Questions
586(2)
The rise and fall of consensus, 1951-79
588(27)
Summary of events
588(1)
What is meant by consensus politics?
589(1)
The Conservative governments, 1951-64
590(2)
What did the Conservative governments achieve?
592(1)
On what grounds can Conservative policies be criticized?
593(5)
The Wilson governments, 1964-70
598(4)
The Heath government, 1970-4
602(4)
Labour in power again, 1974-9
606(9)
Questions
613(2)
The state of the people: social and cultural change since 1945
615(27)
Summary of events
615(1)
Social revolution
615(2)
A more equal society?
617(3)
Legal changes
620(2)
Changes in the status of women
622(3)
The Swinging Sixties - a permissive society?
625(6)
Youth culture, consumerism and the media
631(4)
Immigration and race relations
635(7)
Questions
641(1)
Britain and its parts: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
642(24)
Summary of events
642(1)
Northern Ireland since 1922
643(13)
Relations between Britain and Scotland
656(5)
Relations between Britain and Wales
661(5)
Questions
665(1)
Britain and its place in the world after 1945
666(31)
Summary of events
666(1)
Britain and the Cold War
667(9)
Britain and the Suez Crisis, 1956
676(5)
Britain, Europe and the European Community
681(6)
Britain and the Community since 1973
687(10)
Questions
696(1)
Britain and the end of Empire
697(28)
Summary of events
697(1)
The Empire in its heyday and at the beginning of the end
697(4)
Why and how did the British leave India in 1947?
701(3)
Britain withdraws from Palestine
704(3)
Britain, Malaya and Cyprus
707(3)
The end of the British Empire in Africa
710(10)
A balance sheet of Empire
720(5)
Questions
724(1)
Thatcherism and the New Right, 1979-97
725(36)
Summary of events
725(1)
What is meant by `Thatcherism'?
726(3)
The first Thatcher government, 1979-83
729(5)
Mrs Thatcher's heyday, 1983-7
734(5)
Triumph, decline and downfall, 1987-90
739(5)
Assessment of Mrs Thatcher's governments
744(7)
John Major's governments, 1990-7
751(10)
Questions
760(1)
The Labour party in opposition and the Blair years, 1979-2007
761(37)
Summary of events
761(1)
The emergence of the `New Labour' project
762(4)
New Labour in power: the first Blair government, 1997-2001
766(9)
New Labour and the `war on terror'
775(7)
Domestic affairs and Blair's final years, 2001-7
782(10)
Assessment of the Blair years
792(6)
Questions
797(1)
Further reading 798(20)
Index 818

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