Publication Date: 2012
Edition: Fourth
Pages: 416
As a vigorous interpretation of political and social developments in Britain since the late-Victorian era, State and Society has rapidly become one of the most respected and widely read introductions to the history of modern Britain. In this new edition, the account is updated to take in the decline of New Labour, the financial crisis and the Coalition Government. Pugh examines not only the changes in the political and social spectrums but also those elements of continuity linking the past with more recent history. He closes with an assessment of the continuing dilemmas of national unity - encompassing both positive and negative aspects, from the Royal Wedding to immigration and the defence cuts.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Part 1: The Loss of Confidence, 1870–1902
- The Retreat of the Industrial Revolution
- Not Quite A Democracy
- The Victorian State and Its People
- Victorian Values: Myth and Reality
- The British Nation: Unity and Division
- Isolation and Expansion
- Part 2: The Reorientation: The Emergence of the Interventionist State, 1902–1918
- The State, Social Welfare and the Economy
- The Liberal—labour Alliance
- Crisis and Controversy in Edwardian Britain
- Politics and Society in the Great War
- Part 3: The Period of Confusion: Collectivism Versus Capitalism, 1918–1940
- The Failure of Laissez-Faire
- Mass Democracy in an age of Decline
- The Era of Domesticity
- Imperial Climax and Decline
- Part 4: Consensus: The Age of the Benign State, 1940–1970
- The People's War
- The Keynesian Era
- The Permissive Society
- The Loss of Great-Power Status
- Part 5: The Era of Reaction and Decline, 1970–2011
- The Breakdown of the Post-war Consensus, 1970–1979
- The Era of Thatcherism
- New Labour and the Blair Era
- Crisis and Coalition
- Guide to Further Reading