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Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0199846502
- ISBN-13 : 978-0199846504
- Author: Susan Kingsley Kent (Author)
For decades, scholars have been urging a “four nations” approach to British history. Susan Kingsley Kent’s ambitious and timely A New History of Britain since 1688: Four Nations and an Empire finally delivers on that promise. Ranging from 1688 to the present, the book covers developments in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, along with the British empire, providing a lively and often gripping account of the ever-changing conflicts that have characterized British history. In prose that is accessible and engaging, Kent not only includes the histories of the four “nations” of the British Isles and the vast overseas empire within a single frame, she also seamlessly interweaves the thematic concerns of her previous scholarship–gender history, environmental history, and imperial and colonial history–into the history of British politics, society, and imperial culture. The result is a brilliant synthesis.
Table contents:
Chapter 1: The Glorious Revolution and the Creation of “Britain,” 1688-1707
Chapter 2: Consolidating the Kingdom and the Empire, 1707-1763
Chapter 3: Economic and Intellectual Revolutions of the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 4: Politics and Imperial Turns, 1760-1789
Chapter 5: Revolution, War, and Reaction, 1789-1820
Chapter 6: The Age of Reform, 1820-1848
Chapter 7: “Liberal Empire,” 1823-1873
Chapter 8: Nation and Empire, Citizens and Subjects, 1848-1873
Chapter 9: New Politics, New Imperialism
Chapter 10: The Crises of the Fin de Siècle, 1899-1914
Chapter 11: The Great War and the “Peace,” 1914-1922
Chapter 12: Politics and Empire in Interwar Britain, 1919-1935
Chapter 13: Appeasement, World War, and the Establishment of the Welfare State, 1935-1962
Chapter 14: The Shock of the New: Decolonization and the Creation of a New Society, 1947-1996
Chapter 15: The Make-Up of Britain, 1997-2015
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