Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present

"This revised introduction to the history of modern Britain accounts for the recent, remarkable changes to Britain since the 2008 financial crisis. Extending from the eighteenth century to the present day, James Vernon gives increased prominence to themes of environmental change, global pandemics, BAME history, and shifting ideas of democracy"--

About the author

'James Vernon is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught the history of modern, imperial, Britain for over thirty years on both sides of the Atlantic. Vernon 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' for the University of California Press.'

Product details

• Authors: James (University of California Vernon, James Vernon, Vernon James
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.03.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781009379700
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0937970-0
• Pages: 614
• Series: Cambridge History of Britain
• Subjects: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Political Ideologies, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 21st Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Economic theory & philosophy, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history, Political ideologies and movements, C 1700 To C 1800, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, Economic theory and philosophy, For undergraduate education and equivalents, Textbook, coursework