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Print Price: $143.99

Format:
Paperback
380 pp.
152 mm x 229 mm

ISBN-13:
9780190615536

Copyright Year:
2015

Imprint: OUP US

The Peoples of the British Isles

A New History. From 1870 to the Present

Thomas William Heyck and Meredith Veldman

The new edition of The Peoples of the British Isles presents the history of the peoples of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from prehistoric times to the present. Through the frameworks of cultural, intellectual, and social history, the authors examine the conflicts and commonalities among the people of these four nations. The book focuses throughout on the lives of real people - how they made a living, how they organized their society and institutions, how they related to each other, and how they understood themselves and their world.

This volume covers the period leading up to the First World War through present day Britain.

Part I The Decline of Victorian Britain, 1870-1914
1. Troubles in Economy and Society, 1870-1914
2. Crisis of Confidence, 1870-1914
3. Revival on the Celtic Fringe
4. Politics and the State, 1867-1914
5. The British Empire and the Coming of War, 1870-1914
Part II An Age of Total War, 1914-1945
6. The Great War, 1914-1918
7. The War and the Celtic Countries: Ireland Leaves the Union, 1914-1923
8. Economy, Society, and Culture Between the Wars, 1919-1939
9. Politics, Power, and the Coming of War, 1919-1939
10. Britain and World War II
Part III Britain in the Postwar World, 1945-2014
11. Welfare, Affluence, and Consensus: Culture and Society, 1945-1970
12. Illusions of Power: International and Domestic Politics, 1945-1970
13. The End of Consensus, 1970-1990
14. Post-Thatcher Britain, 1990-2014
15. The Question of Britain: The Celtic Countries, 1945-2014
Appendixes
A: Kings and Queens of Great Britain, 1870-2014
B: Chief Cabinet Ministers, 1868-2014

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Thomas William Heyck (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University. Meredith Veldman (PhD, Northwestern University) is associate professor of history at Louisiana State University.

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Special Features

Details the expansion and decline of the British empire situation within the context of the changing globa economic order.
Discusses the wide-ranging impact of total war on Britain and British society.
Presents the cultural and economic history of the welfare state.
Examinges the emerging fuidity of "Britishness" in a period of mass imigration and political devolution.