A History of the Peoples of the British Isles: From 1870 to the PresentVolume III deals with the 'long twentieth century'. Its main themes are: * the contraction of British industrial power and the shift to a service-based economy * the decline of Victorianism and the rise of Modernism * the climax of class society between the wars and the blurring of class lines after the 1960s * the impact of two world wars * the decline of British power and the empire * the partition of Ireland * the devolution of power to Wales and Scotland. |
Contents
Politics Power and the Coming of War 19191939 | 171 |
Britain and World War II | 193 |
Britain in the Postwar World 19452000 | 215 |
Politics and Foreign Relations 19451970 | 241 |
The Celtic Countries 19451980 | 265 |
Thatchers Britain 19701990 | 285 |
Britain from the 1990s to the Millennium | 309 |
Appendixes | 323 |
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A History of the Peoples of the British Isles, Volume 3 Thomas William Heyck No preview available - 2002 |
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