Britain : a short history

Introduction ONE THE MAKING OF GREAT BRITAIN Introduction The Kingdom of England England, Wales and Scotland The Stuart Dynasty and the Union of the Kingdoms Whigs and Tories TWO CONSOLIDATING THE NATION, 1714--1815 Introduction Early Hanoverian Britain War, commerce, Empire George III: The Patriot King The state of the nation THREE THE EARLY INDUSTRIAL AGE, 1750--1832 Introduction Economic and social change Constitutional developments An expanding political culture The Reform Act of 1832 FOUR BRITAIN PRE-EMINENT, 1832--75 Introduction Prosperity and progress The age of equipoise Liberal Britain Conservative rehabilitation FIVE IMPERIAL HEYDAY, 1875--1914 Introduction Winds of change The imperial idea Unionism ascendant Liberal regeneration An Edwardian crisis? SIX WARS AND DEPRESSION, 1914--45 Introduction The impact of war, 1914--18 Political reconstruction National crisis and national governments Britain at war, 1939-45 SEVEN AFFLUENCE AND DECLINE: BRITAIN SINCE 1945 155 Introduction The politics of consensus, 1945--70 Divergence and re-convergence: politics since 1970 Post-war society: cohesion and fragmentation Britain at the millennium Appendices Notes Bibliography Index