Modern British History

Author : Ellis Wasson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444333720
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sources and Debates in Modern British History written by Ellis Wasson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to complement the author's A History of Modern Britain, this collection of primary sources illuminates and augments the study of modern Britain with coverage of political, imperial, and economic history as well as class and cultural issues Features a broad range of documents, in a well-structured and easy-to-use format, including important, well-known documents and lesser-known excerpts from memoirs and private correspondence Provides up-to-date, balanced coverage of political, imperial, social, economic, and cultural history with over 180 documents Offers a thorough rendering of social class and national identity, including coverage of changes in British society over the last 20 years Includes discussion questions for each document, as well as lists of historical debates and extensive bibliographies of both on-line and traditional sources for students' further research

Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429931019
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Britain written by Andrew Marr and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. In each decade, political leaders think they know what they are doing, but find themselves confounded. Every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and harder to herd than predicted. Throughout, Britain is a country on the edge – first of invasion, then of bankruptcy, then on the vulnerable front line of the Cold War and later in the forefront of the great opening up of capital and migration now reshaping the world. This history follows all the political and economic stories, but deals too with comedy, cars, the war against homosexuals, Sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks, Margaret Thatcher's wonderful good luck, political lies and the true heroes of British theatre.

Author : Naomi Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137601426
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History written by Naomi Lloyd-Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars to evaluate the viability of four nations approaches to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It recognises the separate histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and explores the extent to which they share a common, ‘British’ history. They are entwined, with the points at which they interweave and detach dependent upon the nature of our inquiry, where we locate our ‘core’ and our ‘periphery’, and the ‘cause’ and ‘effect’ of our subject. The collection demonstrates that four nations frameworks are relevant to a variety of topics and tests the limits of the methodology. The chapters illuminate the changing shape of modern British history writing, and provide fresh perspectives on subjects ranging from state governance, nationalism and Unionism, economics, cultural identities and social networking.

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191024279
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000 written by David Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two centuries after 1800 witnessed a series of sweeping changes in the way in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider world. Powerful processes - from the development of democracy, the changing nature of the social contract, war, and economic dislocation - have challenged, and at times threatened to overwhelm, both governors and governed. Such shifts have also presented challenges to the historians who have researched and written about Britain's past politics. This Handbook shows the ways in which political historians have responded to these challenges, providing a snapshot of a field which has long been at the forefront of conceptual and methodological innovation within historical studies. It comprises thirty-three thematic essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field. Collectively, these essays assess and rethink the nature of modern British political history itself and suggest avenues and questions for future research. The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History thus provides a unique resource for those who wish to understand Britain's political past and a thought-provoking 'long view' for those interested in current political challenges.

Author : D. R. Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780469
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading History in Early Modern England written by D. R. Woolf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.

Author : Richard Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780192852298
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and the British written by Richard Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and deeply researched history - the first of its kind - goes beyond the great names and moments to explain how British sport has changed since 1800, and what it has meant to ordinary people. It shows how the way we play reflects not just our lives as citizens of a predominantlyurban and industrial world, but what is especially distinctive about British sport. Innovators in abandoning traditional, often brutal sports, and in establishing a code of `fair play', the British were also pioneers in popular sports and in the promotion of organized spectator events.Modern media coverage of sport, gambling, violence and attitudes towards it, nationalism, and the role of sport in sustaining male identity are also explored, and the book is rich in illuminating and entertaining anecdotes, which it combines with a serious historical understanding of a fascinatingsubject.

Author : Daniel Ussishkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190469072
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morale written by Daniel Ussishkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Morale, modernity, and British social imaginaries -- Transforming military discipline : the reformation of conduct in nineteenth-century Britain -- The sources of collective action : the emergence of morale as a new military problem -- New wars : morale and democratic mobilization -- The techno-politics of consensus : morale at the workplace -- Epilogue: morale in a new (neo-liberal) key? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : James Vernon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108293506
Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present written by James Vernon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an account of the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work. The history takes seriously the different experiences within the British Isles and the British Empire, and offers a global history of Britain. Instead of tracing how Britons made the modern world, Vernon shows how the world shaped the course of Britain's modern history. Richly illustrated with figures and maps, the book features textboxes (on particular people, places and sources), further reading guides, highlighted key terms and a glossary. A supplementary online package includes additional primary sources, discussion questions, and further reading suggestions, including useful links. This textbook is an essential resource for introductory courses on the history of modern Britain.

Author : David Feldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107679641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structures and Transformations in Modern British History written by David Feldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major collection of essays challenges many of our preconceptions about British political and social history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Inspired by the work of Gareth Stedman Jones, twelve leading scholars explore both the long-term structures - social, political and intellectual - of modern British history, and the forces that have transformed those structures at key moments. The result is a series of insightful, original essays presenting new research within a broad historical context. Subjects covered include the consequences of rapid demographic change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the forces shaping transnational networks, especially those between Britain and its empire; and the recurrent problem of how we connect cultural politics to social change. An introductory essay situates Stedman Jones's work within the broader historiographical trends of the past thirty years, drawing important conclusions about new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century.

Author : Norman McCord
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199233195
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British History 1815-1914 written by Norman McCord and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition, extended to cover the period up to 1914, provides the ultimate introduction to British history between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War.