British History 1815-1914 2/e (Short Oxford History of the Modern World) - Softcover
This fully revised and updated edition of Norman McCord's authoritative introduction to nineteenth century British history has been extended to cover the period up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
The nineteenth and early twentieth century saw the transformation of Britain from a predominantly rural to a largely urban society with an economy based upon manufacturing, finance, and trade, and from a society governed mainly by a landed aristocracy to what was increasingly a mass democracy. The authors chart the development of a modern state equipped with a large and expanding bureaucracy, the expansion of overseas territories into one of the world's greatest empires, and changes in religion, social attitudes, and culture.
The book divides the era into four chronological periods, with chapters on the political background, administrative development, and social, economic, and cultural changes in each period. Exploring major themes such as the massive increase in population, the question of class, the scope of state activity, and the development of consumerism, leisure, and entertainment, and including a select bibliography and biographical appendix, this updated new edition provides the ultimate introduction to British history between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War.
The nineteenth and early twentieth century saw the transformation of Britain from a predominantly rural to a largely urban society with an economy based upon manufacturing, finance, and trade, and from a society governed mainly by a landed aristocracy to what was increasingly a mass democracy. The authors chart the development of a modern state equipped with a large and expanding bureaucracy, the expansion of overseas territories into one of the world's greatest empires, and changes in religion, social attitudes, and culture.
The book divides the era into four chronological periods, with chapters on the political background, administrative development, and social, economic, and cultural changes in each period. Exploring major themes such as the massive increase in population, the question of class, the scope of state activity, and the development of consumerism, leisure, and entertainment, and including a select bibliography and biographical appendix, this updated new edition provides the ultimate introduction to British history between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War.
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Norman McCord is Emeritus Professor of Social History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Bill Purdue was Reader in British History at the Open University and is now a Senior Visiting Lecturer.
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"McCord makes social history revealing and illuminating....This is an excellent text, and it is to be hoped that it will be correspondingly influential in its guidance of students."--Times Literary Supplement
"McCord's work has a relaxed authority and individuality...deft deployment of arguments and material derived from a host of unpublished theses and his own original researches."--History Today
Norman McCord is Emeritus Professor of Social History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Bill Purdue was Reader in British History at the Open University and is now a Senior Visiting Lecturer.
Review from previous edition:
"McCord makes social history revealing and illuminating....This is an excellent text, and it is to be hoped that it will be correspondingly influential in its guidance of students."--Times Literary Supplement
"McCord's work has a relaxed authority and individuality...deft deployment of arguments and material derived from a host of unpublished theses and his own original researches."--History Today
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