The modern age

Author(s)

• Matthew, H. C. G. (Henry Colin Gray)
• Morgan, Kenneth O. (Kenneth Owen)

Bibliographic Information

The modern age

H.C.G. Matthew and Kenneth O. Morgan

（The Oxford history of Britain / edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, v. 5）（Oxford paperbacks）

Oxford University Press, 1992, c1988

• : pbk

Other Title

Oxford illustrated history of Britain

Note

Text based on: The Oxford illustrated history of Britain

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-152; p. [178])

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In five paperback volumes, "The Oxford History of Britain" tells the story of Britain and her peoples over 2000 years, from the coming of the Roman legions in 55 BC to the present day. This volume concentrates on Britain in the modern age. The later 19th and early 20th century moved on rapidly from the bland self-assurance of the great Exhibition, to the anxieties of the fin de siecle with its social tensions, imperialist neuroses and sense of national vulnerability. The years since 1914 saw two world wars, puvlerizing economic pressure in the '30s and '70s and a forcible wrenching of Britain out of its place in the sun. The story is brought up to date with a description of the Thatcher years and her fall from office.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 The liberal age (1851-1914), H.C.G. Matthew: free trade - an industrial economy rampant
• a shifting population - town and country
• the masses and the classes - the urban worker
• clerks and commerce - the lower middle class
• the propertied classes
• pomp and circumstance
• "a great change in manners"
• "villa Tories" - the Conservative resurgence
• Ireland, Scotland, Wales - Home Rule frustrated
• reluctant imperialists?
• the fin-de-siecle reaction - new views of the state
• old liberalism, new liberalism, labourism and tariff reform
• Edwardian years - a crisis of the state contained
• "your English summer's done". Part 2 The 20th century (1914-1987), Kenneth O. Morgan: World War I
• the '20s
• the '30s
• World War II
• the post-war world
• the '70 and '80s - the triumph of "Thatcherism".

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Details

• NCID: BA1879745X
• ISBN:
  • 0192852671
• LCCN: 92001156
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 175, [3] p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DA30
  • DC20 : 941
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA18796399
  • BA00075182