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The Age of Reform : 1815-1870 /

Bibliogr. p. 632-657. Index.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodward, E. L. (Ernest Llewellyn), 1890-1971 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1962.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Oxford history of England ; 13.
Subjects:
Great Britain > Politics and government > 19th century.
Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Great Britain.
Landeskunde
Großbritannien
1800-1899
Geschichte 1815-1870.
History.
Publishers' copies (Provenance) > Great Britain > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : England in 1815
  • Book I Politics and parties : The politics of the upper class and the reform of Parliament, 1815-32
  • Monarchy, ministers, and parties, 1832-46 : the age of Melbourne and Peel
  • The politics of the people, 1830-50 : chartism, factory legislation
  • Party politics and political leaders, 1846-70 ; the confusion of parties : the Reform Act of 1867.
  • Book II England and Europe : Foreign policy, 1815-29 ; Castlereagh, Canning, and Wellington
  • The foreign policy of Palmerston, 1830-41 ; the Entente with France, 1841-6 ; Palmerston and the crown, 1848-52
  • The Eastern question, 1841-54, and the Crimean War
  • The foreign policy of Palmerston, 1856-65.
  • Book III Ireland, the colonies, and India : Ireland
  • The colonies
  • India.
  • Book IV The age of reform : The organization of a civilized social life
  • Education, 1815-70
  • Religion and the churches
  • English literature and the development of ideas
  • Movements in the sciences and arts
  • The condition of the people, 1850-70
  • List of cabinets.