State and society : a social and political history of Britain sice 1870
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State and society : a social and political history of Britain sice 1870
Bloomsbury, 2012
4th ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-406) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As a vigorous interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era, State and Society has rapidly become one of the most respected and widely read introductions to the history of modern Britain. In this new edition, the account is updated to take in the decline of New Labour, the financial crisis and the Coalition Government. Pugh examines not only the changes in the political and social spectrums but also those elements of continuity linking the past with more recent history. He closes with an assessment of the continuing dilemmas of national unity - encompassing both positive and negative aspects, from the Royal Wedding to immigration and the defence cuts.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of tables and figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I The Loss of Confidence, 1870-1902
1 The retreat of the Industrial Revolution
2 Not quite a democracy
3 The Victorian state and its people
4 Victorian values: myth and reality
5 The British nation: unity and division
6 Isolation and expansion
Part II The Reorientation: The Emergence of the Interventionist State, 1902-1918
7 The state, social welfare and the economy
8 The Liberal-Labour alliance
9 Crisis and controversy in Edwardian Britain
10 Politics and society in the Great War
Part III The Period of Confusion: Collectivism versus Capitalism, 1918-1940
11 The failure of laissez-faire
12 Mass democracy in an age of decline
13 The era of domesticity
14 Imperial climax and decline
Part IV Consensus: The Age of the Benign State, 1940-1970
15 The people's war
16 The Keynesian era
17 The permissive society
18 The loss of Great-Power status
Part V The Era of Reaction and Decline, 1970-2011
19 The breakdown of the post-war consensus, 1970-1979
20 The era of Thatcherism
21 New Labour and the Blair era
22 The Coalition era
Guide to Further Reading
Index
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