IDENTITY, INDUSTRY AND EMPIRE, 1780-1914
Section 1: Early Industrial Britain, c1780-1850
Introduction
Chapter 1: A 'Greater Britain' in 1780?
Chapter 2: The Demographic Revolution in Britain and Ireland
Chapter 3: Aristocracy rampant?
Chapter 4: The role and impact of the middle classes in British society
Chapter 5: Industrial Revolution or Industrial Evolution?
Chapter 6: Urban Growth and Regional Diversity
Chapter 7: Agriculture in the Early Industrial Age
Chapter 8: Industrialism and Conflict
Section 2: Britainat war and peace, 1780-1815
Introduction
Chapter 9: Government in crisis: the impact of the war for America
Chapter 10: A 'National Revival' under the Younger Pitt, 1783-93
Chapter 11: Britain in the 1790s: the impact of the French Revolution
Chapter 12: The Younger Pitt & the French Revolutionary Wars, 1793-1801
Chapter 13: The Napoleonic Wars, 1803-15
Chapter 14: John Bull's other Island: Ireland and Union, 1780-1815
Chapter 15: Paying for War: government, politics and religion in early nineteenth-century Britain
Section 3:A new political era, 1815-46
Introduction
Chapter 16: The Age of Lord Liverpool I: Radicalism, Reform and Repression, 1815-22
Chapter 17: The Age of Lord Liverpool II: Liberal Toryism, 1822-27?
Chapter 18: Congresses and Conflicts: Britain in Europe, 1815-30
Chapter 19: Matters Imperial, c1790-c1850
Chapter 20: The crisis of Toryism and the road to Reform, 1827-32
Chapter 21: The reality of Reform: the new order and its critics
Chapter 22: The Age of Peel? Policies and Parties, 1832-46
Section 4:A Mature Industrial Society, c1850-1914
Introduction
Chapter 23: A 'Second Industrial Revolution'?: British economic performance,
1850-80
Chapter 24: Social structure and social change in a maturing economy
Chapter 25: Identities, Aspirations and Gender
Chapter 26: Free Trade, Laissez-faire and the changing role the state, c1830-80
Chapter 27: Supremacy under threat? Economy and Society, 1880-1914
Chapter 28: The State, Charity and the Poor, c1830-c1900
Chapter 29: Education, Leisure and Society
Section 5:Party, Policy and Diplomacy: 1846-80
Introduction
Chapter 30: Party Politics Confounded, 1846-59
Chapter 31: Parliamentary Reform c1850-1880: Intention and Impact
Chapter 32: Gladstone and the Liberal Party, 1860-80
Chapter 33: Disraeli and the Conservative Party, 1860-80
Chapter 34: Diplomacy and War: the Pax Britannica challenged, c1840-65
Chapter 35: Diplomacy and the Eastern Question, c1865-80
Section 6: Empire, Democracy and the Road to War, 1880-1914.
Introduction
Chapter 36: 'This vast Empire on which the Sun never sets': imperial expansion and cultural
icon
Chapter 37: Conservatism in the era of Salisbury
Chapter 38: The Liberal party, 1880-1914: sundered and saved?
Chapter 39: Votes for Women
Chapter 40: The impact of Ireland on British Politics, 1880-1914
Chapter 41: Labour, welfare and social conflict, 1900-14
Chapter 42: A greater need for security: Diplomacy and alliance systems, 1880-1902
Chapter 43: An accidental catastrophe? The origins of the First World War
Chapter 44: Epilogue