ISBN: 0351177485
Godina izdanja: 1974
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Henry Pelling - Modern Britain 1885-1955
Cardinal, 1974
223 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro, beleške na par strana grafitnom olovkom.

Henry Pelling is Fellow and Lecturer in history at St John`s College, Cambridge University. He was educated at Birkenhead School and St John`s College, Cambridge, and from 1949 to 1965 he was a Fellow in History and Politics at Queen`s College, Oxford University. His books include Origins of the Labour Party, The Challenge of Socialism (documents), Labour and Politics 1900-6 (with Frank Bealey), The British Communist Party, American Labour, Short History of the Labour Party, History of British Trade Unionism, Social Geography of British Elections, Popular Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain.

Front cover: Coronation Day, 1937, in Flask Walk, Hampstead, by Charles Ginner (Tate Gallery)
Back cover: Banner for the Dockers trade union (from the John Gorman Collection)

CONTENTS
1 Britain in 1885
2 The Era of Imperialism, 1886-1901
3 Social Reform and Armaments, 1901-14
4 The First World War, 1914-18
5 Post-war Retrenchment, 1918-29
6 Depression and the Road to War, 1929-39
7 The Second World War, 1939-45
8 Reconstruction, 1945-55
9 Britain in the Late Fifties: Retrospect Appendices
Books for Further Reading
Index

`The summaries of economic and diplomatic history, and the accounts of the two world wars, could hardly be bettered within their compass`
C. L. Mowat, The Listener
`Mr Pelling is a master of precision`
A. J. P. Taylor, The Guardian

GENERAL EDITOR`S PREFACE
KNOWLEDGE and understanding of English history change and develop so rapidly that a new series needs little apology. The present series was planned in the conviction that a fresh survey of English history was needed, and that the time was ripe for it. It will cover the whole span from Caesar`s first invasion in 55 BC to 1955, and be completed in eight volumes. The precise scope and scale of each book will inevitably vary according to the special circumstances of its period; but each will combine a clear narrative with an analysis of many aspects of history - social, economic, religious, cultural and so forth such as is essential in any approach to English history today.
-The special aim of this series is to provide serious and yet challenging books, not buried under a mountain of detail. Each volume is intended to provide a picture and an appreciation of its age, as well as a lucid outline, written by an expert who is keen to make available and alive the findings of modern research. They are intended to be reasonably short long enough that the reader may feel he has really been shown the ingredients of a period, not so long that he loses appetite for anything further. The series is intended to be a stimulus to wider reading rather than a substitute for it; and yet to comprise a set of volumes, each, within its limits, complete in itself. Our hope is to provide an introduction to English history which is lively and illuminating, and which makes it at once exciting and more intelligible.
C. N. L. B. D. M. S.