James Vernon (Berkeley University of California)

Broschiertes Buch

Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present

Beschreibung

This revised introduction to the history of modern Britain accounts for the recent, remarkable changes to Britain since the 2008 financial crisis. Extending from the 18th century to the present, Vernon gives increased prominence to themes of environmental change, global pandemics, histories of minoritised people, and shifting ideas of democracy.

Autor

'James Vernon is the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught the history of modern, imperial, Britain for over thirty years on both sides of the Atlantic. Vernon 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' for the University of California Press.'

Produktdetails

• Cambridge History of Britain
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1166g
• ISBN-13: 9781009379670
• ISBN-10: 1009379674
• Artikelnr.: 72107969