Empire, state, and society: Britain since 1830

Abstract

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Britain to 1830 4 2 Universal Suffrage and No Surrender: Politics at Home and Abroad, 1830 1867 30 3 Dark Satanic Mills? Economic and Social Change, 1830 1867 52 4 Utilitarians, Evangelicals, and Empire: Intellectual and Cultural Developments, 1830 1867 70 5 Democracy and Empire: Politics, 1867 1910 91 6 The Decline of the Aristocracy: Economic and Social Change, 1867 1910 110 7 Faith and Doubt? Cultural Change, 1867 1910 125 8 In Flanders Fields: Britain and the Great War, 1910 1918 147 9 Nationalism and Depression: Politics, Economics, and Social Change, 1919 1939 168 10 Culture and Ideas between the Wars, 1919 1939 191 11 London Burning: Britain in the Second WorldWar 206 12 Winds of Change: Politics, 1945 1979 222 13 Building a Welfare State: Society and the Economy, 1945 1979 242 14 Meet the Beatles: Cultural and Intellectual Developments, 1945 1979 259 15 From Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia: Politics, 1979 2007 277 16 Whither Britain? Society and Culture since 1979 296 Appendix: Reigns and Ministries since 1830 312 Bibliography 315 Index 330