{"product_id":"mastering-modern-british-history-macmillan-master-series-9781137603876","title":"Mastering Modern British History Macmillan Master","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorman Lowe has had many years experience of teaching history at all levels in school and colleges. He is the author of Mastering Modern World History and Mastering Twentieth-Century Russian History.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Britain Under the Tories 1815-30  Parliament and the Great Reform Act of 1832  Whig Reforms and Failures 1833-41  Chartism  Sir Robert Peel, the Conservatives and the Corn Laws 1830-46  Domestic Affairs 1846-67: Russell, Gladstone, Disraeli and the Reform Act of 1867  Lord Palmerston and Foreign Affairs 1830-65  The Crimean War 1854-56  Britain, India and the Mutiny of 1857  Standards of Living and Social Reform: Factories, Mines, Public Health and Education  Gladstone's First Ministry 1868-74  Disraeli and the Conservatives in Power 1874-80  Victorian Prosperity and Depression  Gladstone and Salisbury 1880-95  Ten Years of Conservative Rule 1895-1905  The Growth of the Trade Unions and the Labour Party to 1914  The State and the People from the 1890s to 1939  The Liberals in Power 1905-14  Britain, the First World War and its Aftermath  Politics in Confusion 1918-24  Baldwin, the Conservatives and the General Strike  Political and Economic Crises, 1929-39: The Second Labour Government (1929-31), the World Economic Crisis and the National Governments  Britain and the Problems of Empire Between the Wars  Appeasement and the Outbreak of the Second World War: Foreign Affairs 1931-39  Britain and the Second World War 1939-45  Labour in Power: the Attlee Governments 1945-51  The Rise and Fall of Consensus 1951-79  The State of the People: Social and Cultural Change Since 1945  Britain and its Parts: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales  Britain and Her Place in the World After 1945  Britain and the End of the Empire  Thatcherism and the New Right 1979-97  Labour in Opposition and in Power, 1979-2010  The Conservatives in Opposition (1997-2010) and in Coalition (2010-2015).","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738401583447,"sku":"9781137603876","price":32.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781137603876.jpg?v=1723812016","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mastering-modern-british-history-macmillan-master-series-9781137603876","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}