James Vernon is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Politics and the People (1993), Hunger: A Modern History (2007) and Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (2014), and the editor of Rereading the Constitution (1996), The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (2011) and the Berkeley Series in British Studies. He is also on the editorial boards of Social History, Twentieth Century British History, and the Journal of British Studies.
Part I. 1750
1819: The Ends of the Ancien Regime: 1. The imperial state; 2. An enlightened civil society and its others; 3. An imperial economy and the population question; Part II. 1819
85: Becoming Liberal and Global: 4. Reform and revolutions in government; 5. An empire of free trade?; 6. Practicing democracy; Part III. 1885
1931: The Crises of Liberalism: 7. The British imperium; 8. The social problem; 9. The rise of the mass; Part IV. 1931
76: Society Triumphant: 10. Late imperialism and social democracy; 11. Social democracy and the Cold War; 12. The ends of social democracy; Part V. 1976-: A New Liberalism?: 13. The neoliberal revolution and the making of homo economicus.
Part I. 1750-1819: The Ends of the Ancien Regime: 1. The imperial state; 2. An enlightened civil society and its others; 3. An imperial economy and the population question; Part II. 1819-85: Becoming Liberal and Global: 4. Reform and revolutions in government; 5. An empire of free trade?; 6. Practicing democracy; Part III. 1885-1931: The Crises of Liberalism: 7. The British imperium; 8. The social problem; 9. The rise of the mass; Part IV. 1931-76: Society Triumphant: 10. Late imperialism and social democracy; 11. Social democracy and the Cold War; 12. The ends of social democracy; Part V. 1976-: A New Liberalism?: 13. The neoliberal revolution and the making of homo economicus.