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Contents
- 1. Reflections on the Revolutions
- 2. Industrial Development
- 3. Reform and Religion
- 4. The Wars Abroad
- 5. Roads to Freedom
- 6. Coping with Reform
- 7. ‘Unless the Lord Build the City …’
- 8. ‘The Ringing Grooves of Change’
- 9. Politics and Diplomacy: Palmerston's Years
- 10. Incorporation
- 11. Free Trade: An Industrial Economy Rampant
- 12. A Shifting Population: Town and Country
- 13. The Masses and the Classes: The Urban Worker
- 14. Clerks and Commerce: The Lower Middle Class
- 15. The Propertied Classes
- 16. Pomp and Circumstance
- 17. ‘A Great Change in Manners’
- 18. ‘Villa Tories’: The Conservative Resurgence
- 19. Ireland, Scotland, Wales: Home Rule Frustrated
- 20. Reluctant Imperialists?
- 21. The Fin-de-Siècle Reaction: New Views of the State
- 22. Old Liberalism, New Liberalism, Labourism, and Tariff Reform
- 23. Edwardian Years: A Crisis of the State Contained
- 24. ‘Your English Summer's Done’
