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The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870 (Foundations of modern Britain) (3rd Revised edition) ISBN: 0582472679 ISBN13: 9780582472679 The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870 (Foundations of modern Britain) (3rd Revised edition) By: Eric J. Evans Publisher: Longman Format: Paperback Our Price: 27.99

In this hugely ambitious history of Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which the country was transformed into the world's first industrial power. This was an era of revolutionary change unparalleled in Britain, yet one in which transformation was achieved without political revolution. The unique combination of transition and revolution is a major theme in the book, which ranges across the embryonic empire, the Church, education, health, finance, and rural and urban life. Evans gives particular attention to the Great Reform Act of 1832. The Third Edition includes an entirely new introductory chapter, and is illustrated for the first time.


Contents:

PART ONE: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE CHALLENGE OF WAR, 1783-1815 Framework of Events

1

Britain in the early 17802: I Society and Economy

2

Britain in the early 1780s: II Politics and government

3

'A nation restored': I Politics and finance under Pitt

4

'A nation restored': II Overseas trade and foreign affairs

5

The new political economy and the early impact of laissez-faire

6

The new moral economy: Wilberforce, the Saints and New Dissent

7

The decline of the Whigs and the emergence of a new Conservatism, 1788-1812

8

Radicalism, repression and patriotism, 1780-1803

9

The wars with France: I Pitt's War, Addington's Peace 1793-1803

10

The Wars with France:II Endurance and triumph, 1803-1815

11

Ireland: The road to Union, 1782-1801

PART TWO: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 12

The onset of industrialism

13

Entrepreneurs and markets

14

The structure and organization of the workforce in early industrial Britain

15

A living from the land: Landowners, farmers and improvement

16

'Living and partly living': Labourers, poverty and protest

17

Standards of living and the quality of life

18

Organizations of labour

19

Class consciousness? PART THREE: THE CRUCIBLE OF REFORM, 1815-1846 Framework of Events

20

Unprepared for peace: Distress and the resurgence of reform, 1815-1820

21

Liberal Toryism? 22

Influence without entanglement: Foreign affairs, 1815-1846

23

The crisis of reform, 1827-1832

24

'The real interests of the aristocracy': The Reform Act of 1832

25

The condition of England question: I The new Poor Law

26

The condition of England question: II Factory reform, education and public health

27

'The Church in danger': Anglicanism and its opponents

28

The age of Peel? Politics and policies, 1832-1846

29

The politics of pressure: I Chartism

30

The politics of pressure: The Anti-Corn-Law League

PART FOUR: EARLY INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, REFINED AND TESTED, 1846-1870 Framework of Events

31

The zenith of the bourgeoisie

32

The professionalization of government

33

Urban Britain in the age of improvement

34

Religion and society

35

Leisure and responsibility

36

Education and the consciousness of status

37

'An assembly of gentlemen': Party politics, 1846-1859

38

Palmerston and the pax Britannica

39

The revival of reform

40

'The principle of numbers': Towards democracy, 1867-1870

41

Conclusion: Forging a modern state or modern states? Integration and diversity in the United Kingdom

COMPENDIUM OF INFORMATION

A

British governments, 1783-1870

B

Parliament and parliamentary reform

C

The growth of government

D

The economy

E

Population

F

Foreign and colonial affairs

G

Religion.


Brief Description:

Revised to provide fresh perspectives on the key period between 1783 and 1870, when Britain was transformed into the world's first industrial power, this text surveys every aspect of the period.

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