British History

This book is concerned with the interaction between religion, society and politics c.600-800. Yorke compares and contrasts the circumstances in which Christianity became the religion of the four early medieval peoples of Britain. It is concerned not only with the impact of Christianity on the four p..

`This is a powerfully sustained argument, based on prodigious learning and infolded with elegance, lucidity and wit.' - David CannadineGreen offers a new interpretation of Conservative politics in the period 1880-1914...

Offers an account of the overall shape of organised antislavery from its beginnings in the 1780s, and provides fresh perspectives from which to assess contending interpretations of antislavery...

This is a clear, objective up-to-date account of the Liberal Party covering the key period, 1910 - 1931...

This is a clear, objective up-to-date account of the Liberal Party covering the key period, 1910 - 1931...

A fascinating survey of Anglo-Saxon history from the sixth century to the eighth century and the death of King Alfred. This book reveals the complex, distant and tumultuous events of Anglo-Saxon politics...

So wrote Paul Kennedy of this lucid and comprehensive survey on first publication in 1983. The Second Edition updates the text to the threshold of the present. To the original span (1870-1975) -- which encompassed both the climax and the dissolution of the British Empire -- Keith Robbins has added a..

So wrote Paul Kennedy of this lucid and comprehensive survey on first publication in 1983. The Second Edition updates the text to the threshold of the present. To the original span (1870-1975) -- which encompassed both the climax and the dissolution of the British Empire -- Keith Robbins has added a..

The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for ..

The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for ..

This famous survey has been updated to incorporate the new perspectives of the last twelve years. The study opens with one Revolution, the Reformation, and closes with another - the Civil War of the mid-17th century and the abolition of the monarchy. Alan Smith explores the dramatic changes during t..

The Empire Strikes Back? injects the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain.It takes as its premise the idea that the empire was integral to British state and society -not something off stage, which can be safely left to African and Indian history. It argues that the British develop..