Great Britain: the lion at home : a documentary history of domestic policy, 1689-1973
Joel H. Wiener (Editor)
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4 volumes (xlvi, 3971 pages) 24 cm
9780835207768, 0835207765
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v. 1: A century of transition, 1689-1760
Revolution settlement
Lords and commons
Foundations of economic expansion
Jacobite threat
The church and dissent
Social policy and administration
A nation transformed, 1760-1830
First Industrial Revolution
George III and the Constitution
Beginning of the reform movement
Financial policy of William Pitt
Policy of repression
Spread of literacy
Revival of radicalism
Factories and poor relief
Administrative and legal reforms
Government and the economy
Claims of Catholics and dissenters
Victorian Britain at its apogee, 1830-1870
Crisis over parliamentary reform
Working-class activism
v. 2: Victorian Britain at its apogee, 1830-1870
Repeal of the corn laws
Mid-Victorian economic expansion
Education in a changing society
Poverty and the state
Central and local government
Mid-Victorian political life
Further expansion of the franchise
Weakening of the Church of England
Treatment of non-Anglicans
Growth of professionalism
v. 3: The dissolution of the Victorian consensus
State education
Military reforms
Victorian administrative state
Extension of democracy
Victorian liberalism and its critics
Impact of religion
Legal and property rights
Challenge of labor
Trade unions and the law
Prewar social reform
Conflicts between lords and commons
The lion in decline 1914-1973
Exigencies of the war
Economic discontent
v. 4: The lion in decline (continued)
Postwar reforms
Politics of democracy
World depression
Abdication of Edward VIII
Policy of nationalization
Creating a welfare state
Economic decline
Decades of constructive achievement
Unresolved questions