Sources and Debates in Modern British History

Sources and Debates in Modern British History
Author: Ellis Wasson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-12-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1444333720

Designed to complement the author's A History of Modern Britain, this collection of primary sources illuminates and augments the study of modern Britain with coverage of political, imperial, and economic history as well as class and cultural issues Features a broad range of documents, in a well-structured and easy-to-use format, including important, well-known documents and lesser-known excerpts from memoirs and private correspondence Provides up-to-date, balanced coverage of political, imperial, social, economic, and cultural history with over 180 documents Offers a thorough rendering of social class and national identity, including coverage of changes in British society over the last 20 years Includes discussion questions for each document, as well as lists of historical debates and extensive bibliographies of both on-line and traditional sources for students' further research

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain
Author: Jon Agar
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1911576585

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organisation – and self-organisation – that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways. Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.

Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History

Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History
Author: Naomi Lloyd-Jones
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2017-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137601426

This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars to evaluate the viability of four nations approaches to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It recognises the separate histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and explores the extent to which they share a common, ‘British’ history. They are entwined, with the points at which they interweave and detach dependent upon the nature of our inquiry, where we locate our ‘core’ and our ‘periphery’, and the ‘cause’ and ‘effect’ of our subject. The collection demonstrates that four nations frameworks are relevant to a variety of topics and tests the limits of the methodology. The chapters illuminate the changing shape of modern British history writing, and provide fresh perspectives on subjects ranging from state governance, nationalism and Unionism, economics, cultural identities and social networking.

British History 1815-1914

British History 1815-1914
Author: Norman McCord
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199233195

This fully revised and updated new edition, extended to cover the period up to 1914, provides the ultimate introduction to British history between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the outbreak of the First World War.

Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present

Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present
Author: James Vernon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1068
Release: 2017-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108293506

This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an account of the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work. The history takes seriously the different experiences within the British Isles and the British Empire, and offers a global history of Britain. Instead of tracing how Britons made the modern world, Vernon shows how the world shaped the course of Britain's modern history. Richly illustrated with figures and maps, the book features textboxes (on particular people, places and sources), further reading guides, highlighted key terms and a glossary. A supplementary online package includes additional primary sources, discussion questions, and further reading suggestions, including useful links. This textbook is an essential resource for introductory courses on the history of modern Britain.

Reading History in Early Modern England

Reading History in Early Modern England
Author: D. R. Woolf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521780469

A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.

Sport and the British

Sport and the British
Author: Richard Holt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1990
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 9780192852298

This lively and deeply researched history - the first of its kind - goes beyond the great names and moments to explain how British sport has changed since 1800, and what it has meant to ordinary people. It shows how the way we play reflects not just our lives as citizens of a predominantlyurban and industrial world, but what is especially distinctive about British sport. Innovators in abandoning traditional, often brutal sports, and in establishing a code of `fair play', the British were also pioneers in popular sports and in the promotion of organized spectator events.Modern media coverage of sport, gambling, violence and attitudes towards it, nationalism, and the role of sport in sustaining male identity are also explored, and the book is rich in illuminating and entertaining anecdotes, which it combines with a serious historical understanding of a fascinatingsubject.

Modern British History

Modern British History
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780333719541

This compelling text provides a thematic account of British history centering on the 20th century. To the traditional, chronological account of historic events, Black adds long-range thematic chapters reflecting the full range of topics. These include political structures, ideologies, wars and international relations, economic history, and social history as well as consumerism, media, and mass communication. The coverage is further enlivened with exhibits providing supplementary background information on key personalities and pivotal events, and numerous illustrations.

Thatcher's Progress

Thatcher's Progress
Author: Guy Ortolano
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 110848266X

Horizons -- Planning -- Architecture -- Community -- Consulting -- Housing.

The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland

The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland
Author: Eugenio F. Biagini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 651
Release: 2017-04-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107095581

This is the first textbook on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective. Written by an international team of leading scholars, it draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches and consistently sets Irish developments in a wider European and global context.