The rule of democracy, 1905-1914
Author : Élie Halévy
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Élie Halévy
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Élie Halévy
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Christopher Harvie
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0192853988
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, when it faced its greatest test since the defeat of Napoleon, it was largely urban and English. Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew show the forces behind Britain's rise to its imperial zenith, and the continuing tensions within the nations and classes of the 'union state'. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Élie Halévy
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Élie Halévy
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth O. Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0192577921
A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing political, social, economic, and cultural developments throughout the British Isles, the dramatic narrative is taken up in turn by ten leading historians who offer the fruits of the best modern scholarship to the general reader in an authoritative form. A vivid, sometimes surprising picture emerges of a continuous turmoil of change in every period, and the wider social context of political and economic tension is made clear. But consensus, no less than conflict, is a part of the story: in focusing on elements of continuity down the centuries, the authors bring out that special awareness of identity which has been such a distinctive feature of British society. By relating both these factors in the British experience, and by exploring the many ways in which Britain has shaped and been shaped by contact with Europe and the wider world, this landmark work brings the reader face to face with the past, and the foundations of modern British society. This updated new edition (by the original editor) adds great richness by taking the story down from the economic crisis of 2008 to the conflict over Europe at the present day.
Author : Kenneth O. Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192893260
Examines political, economic, social, and culture changes in Great Britain from Roman times to the present.
Author : Alfred F. Havighurst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521522472
The most comprehensive bibliography of printed books, articles, and standard texts on twentieth-century England.
Author : Geoffrey Lewis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2006-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0826432328
The partition of Ireland in 1921, and the birth of Northern Ireland as a political entity, was the work of one man above all. Edward Carson, born in Dublin in 1854, was a brilliant lawyer whose cross-questioning of Oscar Wilde at his libel trial brought about Wilde's downfall. An inspiring orator and a political heavyweight at Westminster, his defence of Unionism in the years before the First World War, and of the rights of Ulster not to be swamped in an independent Ireland, made a united Ireland a political impossibility. While some of his actions were denounced in England as close to treason, Carson's idealism and religious tolerance were untypical of the sectarian bigotry that marred the later history of Northern Ireland. Carson: The Man Who Divided Ireland is the first modern biography of a major figure in both British and Irish politics.
Author : J.F.C. Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1136116524
Drawing heavily on the recollections and literature of the people themselves, Harrison places late Victorian Britain firmly in its social and political context.