Author: Colin McNabPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Britain in Change, 1815-51
Author: Colin McNabChanging Britain, 1815-51
Author: Greg HethertonPublisher: Hutchinson Radius
ISBN: 9780091730451
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Britain 1815-51
Author: Martin CollierPublisher:
ISBN: 9780435327163
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
A study of protest and reform in Britain between 1815 and 1851. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions in the margin, and summary boxes to help students assimilate the information. The A2 section reflects the different demands of the higher level examination by concentrating on analysis and historians' interpretations of the material covered in the AS section. There are practice questions and hints and tips on what makes a good answer.
The Crucible of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare and European Transitions to Modern Economic Growth
Author: Patrick Karl O'BrienPublisher: Library of Economic History
ISBN: 9789004472730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"Historiographically, this book rests on the fact that European transitions to modern economic growth were obstructed and promoted by the Revolution in France and 15 years of geopolitical conflict sustained by Napoleon in order to establish French Hegemony over the states and economies of Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and overseas commerce. The chapters reveal that the nature and significance of connections between geopolitical and economic forces lend coherence to a collaborative endeavour utilising comparative methods to address a mega question: What might be plausibly concluded about the economic costs and the benefits of this protracted conjuncture of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare?"--
Britain Against Napoleon
Author: Roger KnightPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141977027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
From Roger Knight, established by his multi-award winning book The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close it came to defeat. For more than twenty years after 1793, the French army was supreme in continental Europe, and the British population lived in fear of French invasion. How was it that despite multiple changes of government and the assassination of a Prime Minister, Britain survived and won a generation-long war against a regime which at its peak in 1807 commanded many times the resources and manpower? This book looks beyond the familiar exploits of the army and navy to the politicians and civil servants, and examines how they made it possible to continue the war at all. It shows the degree to which, as the demands of the war remorselessly grew, the whole British population had to play its part. The intelligence war was also central. Yet no participants were more important, Roger Knight argues, than the bankers and traders of the City of London, without whose financing the armies of Britain's allies could not have taken the field. The Duke of Wellington famously said that the battle which finally defeated Napoleon was 'the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life': this book shows how true that was for the Napoleonic War as a whole. Roger Knight was Deputy Director of the National Maritime Museum until 2000, and now teaches at the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich. In 2005 he published, with Allen Lane/Penguin, The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson, which won the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military History, the Mountbatten Award and the Anderson Medal of the Society for Nautical Research. The present book is a culmination of his life-long interest in the workings of the late 18th-century British state.
The Age of Reform, 1815-1870
Author: Ernest Llewellyn WoodwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
By the early 19th century, British society had changed drastically as a result of the industrial revolution and other factors. Unfortunately the government and other social institutions had not. A reform was certainly in order.
Two Centuries of Change
Author: E.J. HutchinsBritain 1815-51
Author: David SylvesterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780715715673
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815–1851
Author: Dr Linda E ConnorsPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409478882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Examining the complex and rapidly expanding world of print culture and reading in the nineteenth century, Linda E. Connors and Mary Lu MacDonald show how periodicals in the United Kingdom and British North America shaped and promoted ideals about national identity. In the wake of the Napoleonic wars, periodicals instilled in readers an awareness of cultures, places and ways of living outside their own experience, while also proffering messages about what it meant to be British. The authors cast a wide net, showing the importance of periodicals for understanding political and economic life, faith and religion, the world of women and children, the idea of progress as a transcendent ideology, and the relationships between the parts (for example, Scotland or Nova Scotia) and the whole (Great Britain). Analyzing the British identity of expatriate nineteenth-century Britons in North America alongside their counterparts in Great Britain enables insights into whether residents were encouraged to identify themselves by country of residence, by country of birth, or by their newly acquired understanding of a broader whole. Enhanced by a succinct and informative catalogue of data, including editorship and price, about the periodicals analyzed, this study provides a striking history of the era and brings clarity to the perception of British transcendence and progress that emerged with such force and appeal after 1815.
Britain 1815-51
Author: Schools Council (Great Britain). History 13-16 ProjectPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description