Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present - 1750 to the Present

Informationen zum Autor James Vernon is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Politics and the People (1993), Hunger: A Modern History (2007) and Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (2014), and the editor of Rereading the Constitution (1996), The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (2011) and the Berkeley Series in British Studies. He is also on the editorial boards of Social History, Twentieth Century British History, and the Journal of British Studies. Klappentext An introductory textbook charting a global history of modern Britain from 1750 to the present. Zusammenfassung A wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain! from 1750 to the present day. James Vernon examines the rise! fall and revival of liberalism! with economic and imperial history at the centre. An essential resource for introductory courses on the history of modern Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. 1750-1819: The Ends of the Ancien Regime: 1. The imperial state; 2. An enlightened civil society and its others; 3. An imperial economy and the population question; Part II. 1819-85: Becoming Liberal and Global: 4. Reform and revolutions in government; 5. An empire of free trade?; 6. Practicing democracy; Part III. 1885-1931: The Crises of Liberalism: 7. The British imperium; 8. The social problem; 9. The rise of the mass; Part IV. 1931-76: Society Triumphant: 10. Late imperialism and social democracy; 11. Social democracy and the Cold War; 12. The ends of social democracy; Part V. 1976-: A New Liberalism?: 13. The neoliberal revolution and the making of homo economicus.

Product details

• Authors: James Vernon, James (University of California Vernon, Vernon James
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107031333
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03133-3
• No. of pages: 588
• Series: Cambridge History of Britain; Cambridge History of Britain
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, C 1700 To C 1800