Empire, State, and Society

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 Britain to 1830 4

2 Universal Suffrage and No Surrender: Politics at Home and Abroad, 1830-1867 30

3 Dark Satanic Mills? Economic and Social Change, 1830-1867 52

4 Utilitarians, Evangelicals, and Empire: Intellectual and Cultural Developments, 1830-1867 70

5 Democracy and Empire: Politics, 1867-1910 91

6 The Decline of the Aristocracy: Economic and Social Change, 1867-1910 110

7 Faith and Doubt? Cultural Change, 1867-1910 125

8 In Flanders Fields: Britain and the Great War, 1910-1918 147

9 Nationalism and Depression: Politics, Economics, and Social Change, 1919-1939 168

10 Culture and Ideas between the Wars, 1919-1939 191

11 London Burning: Britain in the Second World War 206

12 Winds of Change: Politics, 1945-1979 222

13 Building a Welfare State: Society and the Economy, 1945-1979 242

14 Meet the Beatles: Cultural and Intellectual Developments, 1945-1979 259

15 From Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia: Politics, 1979-2007 277

16 Whither Britain? Society and Culture since 1979 296

Appendix: Reigns and Ministries since 1830 312

Bibliography 315

Index 330