A New England? : Peace and War 1886-1918.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Searle, G. R.

Series:

New Oxford history of England.

The new Oxford history of England

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--England.

World War, 1914-1918.

Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.651 0Great Britain--History--Edward VII, 1901-1910.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--George V, 1910-1936.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (951 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005.

Summary:

This absorbing narrative history brings into sharp and lively focus a period of immense energy, creativity, and turmoil. The book opens in 1886, as the Empire is poised to celebrate Victoria's golden jubilee, and ends in 1918 at the close of the 'war to end all wars', with England knowing that an era has conclusively ended. It vividly portrays ever.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

General Editor's Preface

Preface

Contents

List of Plates

List of Tables and Map

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: England in 1886

1. Nationalism and Nationality

1. English and 'Celts'

2. Foreign Immigration

3. The English Exodus

4. 'Our Kith and Kin'

5. Foreigners

6. The Empire and 'Race'

7. Schooling and Patriotism

8. Conclusion

2. Generation and Gender

1. The Young

2. The Position of Women

3. Gender Roles

4. Sexual Mores

5. Votes for Women

6. Conclusion

3. Social Identities: Class, Community, and the Masses

1. Locality

2. Vertical Stratification: Occupation

3. Horizontal Stratification: Class

4. Religion and Culture

5. The Rise of Mass Society

6. Status Hierarchies

7. Conclusion

4. Governance and Politics

1. Uniting the United Kingdom

2. Governance

3. A Ruling Class?

4. The Electoral System

5. The Shaping of Party Allegiance

6. Party and Its Critics

Part II: Late Victorian England 1886-1899

5. Home Rule and the Politics of Unionism

1. The Aftermath of the Home Rule Crisis

2. Salisbury and the Unionist Alliance, 1886-1892

3. The Liberals in Office, 1892-1895

4. The Disappearance of the Irish Question?

6. the Social Question: Conflict and Stability, 1886-1899

1. The Crisis of the 1880s

2. Agricultural Depression and Rural Society

3. Industrial Unrest and the 'New Unionism'

4. The March of Progress?

5. The Social Explorers and the 'People of the Abyss'

6. The Making of Social Policy

7. Politics and the Social Question, 1886-1899

1. The Salisbury Government, 1886-1892

2. The Liberal Ministries, 1892-1895

3. The Unionists After 1895

4. Local Politics in Late Victorian Britain

5. Popular Politics and the Rise of Labour.

8. Uneasy Dominion: Britain Under Challenge, 1886-1899

1. Introduction

2. Overseas Trade and Investment

3. A Great Power in Retreat?

4. The Problem of Imperial Defence

5. Modernizing the Army

6. Salisbury and the Foreign Office

7. Egypt Secured

8. Prelude to the Second Boer War

9. The Boer War, 1899-1902

1. Pyrrhic Victory?

2. On the Home Front

3. Liberal Troubles and Unionist Muddles

4. The Inquest

Part III: Edwardian England

10. The Unionist Project, 1902-1905

International Relations

1. The Reorganization of Imperial Defence

2. The End of Isolation?

The Domestic Front

1. The 1902 Education Act

2. The Genesis of Tariff Reform

3. Drifting to Disaster

4. A Doomed Project?

5. The End of the Unionist Ascendancy

6. The Forging of the Progressive Alliance

7. Defeat

Transition to Liberal Rule, 1906-1908

1. The 1906 General Election

2. The Liberals in Office: the Early Years

11. The Liberal Party and Social Welfare Politics

1. The Liberal Welfare Reforms

2. Rationale for Legislation

3. Creating an Imperial Race?

4. The Political Legacy of Welfare Reform

5. Health and Welfare in Edwardian Britain

12. The Years of 'Crisis', 1908-1914

2. The Constitutional Crisis

3. Crisis in Ireland

4. The Issue of Corruption

5. The Great Labour Unrest

6. The Women's Revolt

7. The Strange Death of Liberal England?

13. The Road to War

1. Imperial Policy

2. The Formation of the Anglo-russian Entente

3. The Hardening of the Anglo-french Entente

4. The Strategic Dilemma

5. Grey Under Challenge

6. Invasion Scares and Spies

7. A Militarized Society?

8. Feeling in the Country

9. The Challenge of the Peace Movement

10. Crisis

Part IV: Leisure, Culture, and Science

14. The Pursuit of Pleasure.

1. Time for Play

2. The Role of Religion

3. Rational Recreation

4. Rise of the Leisure Industry

5. 'I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside'

6. Forbidden Pleasures

7. Hobbies

15. Art and Culture

1. The Market for Art

2. Art and Morality

3. Realism and Modernism

4. The Nature of 'Englishness'

5. Pastoralism

16. Science and Learning

1. The Age of Discovery

2. Technology and Science

3. Britain's International Performance

4. The 'Endowment of Research' Movement

5. Attitudes to Science and Technology

6. Science and Spirituality

7. Social Science

8. The Triumph of Academia?

Part V: The Great War

17. The Great War: The Loss of Innocence, 1914-1916

1. 'All over by Christmas?': August-december 1914

2. The End of the Liberal Ministry, January-May 1915

3. Troubled Days, May-December 1915

4. Jutland and the War at Sea

5. The Somme Campaign

6. Background to the December 1916 Crisis

18. The Great War: Tragedy and Triumph, 1916-1918

1. Turning over a New Leaf ?

2. Gambling on Nivelle

3. The Unrestricted U-Boat Campaign

4. Third Ypres and Cambrai

5. Crumbling Morale

6. Planning for 1918

7. 'Backs to the Wall'

8. Lloyd George's Triumph

9. Forward to Victory

19. The Patriotic Experience

1. The Experience of War

2. National Identities

3. Pacifists, Patriots, and Jingoes

20. War and the Reshaping of Identities

1. Gender and Generation

2. Class and the Military Participation Ratio

3. The Growth of the State

4. Political Identities

Chronology

List of Cabinets

General Elections

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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OCLC:

1006316629