About the Book
The new edition of The Peoples of the British Isles presents the history of the peoples of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from prehistoric times to the present. Through the frameworks of cultural, intellectual, and social history, the authors examine the conflicts and commonalities among the people of these four nations. The book focuses throughout on the lives of real people-how they made a living, how they organized their society and institutions, how they related to each other, and how they understood themselves and their world. This volume covers the period following the Revolution of 1688 through the build up to the First World War. Beginning with the formation of the British nation-state, Heyck and Veldman follow the spread of English cultural influence and power to the Celtic peoples and beyond.
Major themes covered in this volume include:* formation of the British nation-state* expansion of the British Empire* the demographic, agricultural, and industrial revolutions* shift from a society of orders to a class society* evolving gender roles* interplay of international warfare and domestic political change Features of the new edition:* New chapters 18-22 extend the scope of this volume to include the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods, and the lead-up to World War I* Full and fair treatment of the Celtic countries of the British Isles and their interactions and conflicts with England* Fully incorporated, expanded coverage of popular culture, including new sections on the intersection of commercialism and culture; discussions of the work of Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot; and a discussion about the popularity of pleasure gardens* Fully incorporated, expanded coverage of women's issues including a discussion of the role of women in the revolts against Highland Clearances, and differences in legal status between women of the four nations* expanded map program and updated suggested readings throughout
Table of Contents:
* Part I The Age of the Landed Oligarchy, 1688-1763*1 The Lands and Peoples of the British lsles at the End of the Seventeenth Century* England* Wales* Scotland* Ireland* Suggested Reading*2 The Revolution of 1688 and the Revolution Settlement* The Reign of Charles II, 1660-1685* Whigs and Tories Rebel, 1685-1688* William III and the Revolution in England* The Revolution in Ireland, 1688-1691* Scotland: From Revolution to Union* Foreign Wars* The Financial Revolution* The Hanoverian Succession, 1714* Suggested Reading*3 Society and Economy in Eighteenth-Century England* The Social Structure: An Open Hierarchy* Social Relations: Property, Patronage, and Deference* Land, Marriage, Patriarchy, and the Family* The Commercial Revolution* Manufacturing before the Industrial Revolution* The Changing Agricultural Order* Suggested Reading*4 Political Structure and Politics in Augustan England* Achieving Political Stability, 1700-1720* Local Government and the Law in the Age of Oligarchy* The Structure of National Politics, 1715-1760* Walpole and the Robinocracy* The Great Commoner: William Pitt the Elder* Popular Politics* The Growth of the British State* Suggested Reading*5 Religion, Rationality, and Recreation: Culture in Eighteenth-Century England* The Enlightenment in England* The Empiricist Tradition* Nature, God, and Morality* Religion and the Church in England* Commercialization and Culture: The Written Word* Commercialization and Culture: The Visual Arts* Popular Culture, Common Cultures* Suggested Reading*6 The Jacobite Rebellion of 1715* The '45* The Destruction of the Clans and the Transformation of the Highlands* Developments in Lowland Scotland* The Scottish Enlightenment* Suggested Reading*7 The Expansion of British Power and Empire, 1715-1763* The European State System* British Interests and Power* The Colonies* The War of Jenkins' Eara King George's War (1739-1748)* The French and Indian War--The Seven Years' War (1756-1763)* The Prizes of Victory* Suggested Reading* Part II The Age of Revolutions, 1763-1815*8 The Crisis of Empire, 1763-1783* George III and the Politicians* John Wilkes and Popular Politics* Britons into Americans Tightening the Empire* The War for Colonial Independence* The Aftermath* Suggested Reading*9 The Rise of the Protestant Nation in Ireland* The Protestant Landlords and Their Culture* Economy, Land, and Potatoes* Rise of the Protestant Nation* Grattan's Parliament* Suggested Reading*10 The Triple Revolution, 1760-1815* The Agricultural Revolution* The Population Explosion* The Industrial Revolution* Key Industries: Iron, Coal, and Cotton* Geographical Specialization* Causes of Industrialization* Social Preconditions* Cultural Preconditions* Social Consequences of the Triple Revolution* Suggested Reading*11 The War Against the French Revolution, 1789-1815* William Pitt the Younger and National Revival* Origins of the War with France* War with France, 1793-1798* The War at Home* The Crisis of 1797-1798* War, 1798-1815* The Prizes and Costs of War, 1793-1815* Suggested Reading*12 Intellectual and Spiritual Revolutions, 1780-1815* Utilitarianism* Parson Malthus* John Wesley and the Evangelical Revival* The Theology and Appeal of Evangelicalism* Methodism in Wales* The Evangelicals in the Church of England* The Antislavery Movement* Romanticism* The English Romantic Poets* Romanticism in Wales and Scotland* British Romantic Architecture and Painting* Suggested Reading* Part III The Rise of Victorian Society, 1815-1870*13 The Emerging Class Society, 1815-1850* British and Irish Populations, 1815-1850* The British Economy, 1815-1850* The Landed Class: Aristocracy and Gentry* The Middle Class* The Emerging Working Class* Suggested Reading*14 Politics and the State, 1815-1850* The Structure of Politics and the Scope of the State in 1815* Political Reform, 1815-1835* The Structure of Politics After 1832* The Condition of England Question and the Growth of the State, 1832-1850* Class Politics: The Anti-Corn Law League and the Chartist Movement* Suggested Reading*15 Ireland from the Union to the Famine* The Irish Question* Daniel O'Connell and Catholic Emancipation* Repeal and Young Ireland* The Great Famine, 1845-1850* Young Ireland and 1848* Suggested Reading*16 Mid-Victorian Society and Culture, 1850-1870* Economic Stability* Muting of Social Conflict* The Crystal Palace, 1851* High Culture of the Victorian Period* Exemplars: Carlyle, Dickens, Tennyson, and Mill* Women Writers in the Victorian Period* Victorian Painting and Architecture* The Rise of Science* Religion, Science, and the Crisis of Faith* Suggested Reading*17 The Overflow of Power: British Empire and Foreign Policy, 1815-1870* British Power and Interests* The Free Trade Empire* The Jewel in the Crown: India* An Imperial Culture?* Foreign Policy under Castlereagh and Canning* Foreign Policy under Palmerston* The Crimean War* Suggested Reading* Part IV The Decline of Victorian Britain, 1870-1914*18 Upheaval in Economy and Society, 1870-1914* Agricultural Depression in England and Wales* Land Wars in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands* Relative Industrial Decline* The Edwardian False Dawn* Social Change: The Class System* Social Change: Gender Roles and Relations* The Women's Movement* Suggested Reading*19 Crisis of Confidence, 1870-1914* Scientific Naturalism* New Liberalism* Socialism* Aestheticism* Suggested Reading*20 Revival on the Celtic Fringe* Wales: Coal, Nonconformity, and Linguistic Nationalism* Scotland: National Identity and the Gaelic Revival* Ireland: From the Devotional Revolution to the Home Rule Movement, 1850-1890* Ireland: Literary Renaissance and Cultural Nationalism, 1890-1914* Ireland: New Expressions of Political Nationalism, 1890-1914* Suggested Reading*21 Politics and the State, 1867-1914* The Reform Act of 1867* The Impact of the 1867 Reform Act* Gladstone and Disraeli* Home Rule and British Politics* New Unionism and the Rise of Labour* The Triumph of New Liberalism, 1906-1910* The Trials of Liberalism, 1910-1914* Suggested Reading*22 The British Empire and the Coming of War, 1870-1914* The Imperialist Idea* Great Power Rivalries and Imperial Expansion* The South African War, 1899-1902* Britain and Europe: From Isolation to Alliance* The Drift into War, 1905-1914* Suggested Reading* Appendixes* A Kings and Queens of Great Britain, 1685-1914* B Chief Cabinet Ministers, 1721-1914* Index
About the Author :
Thomas William Heyck (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is professor emeritus of history at Northwestern University, USA. Meredith Veldman (PhD, Northwestern University) is associate professor of history at Louisiana State University, USA.
