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James Vernon - Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present (Cambridge History of Britain) - 9781107686007 - V9781107686007
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Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present (Cambridge History of Britain)

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Description for Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present (Cambridge History of Britain) Paperback. An introductory textbook charting a global history of modern Britain from 1750 to the present. Series: Cambridge History of Britain. Num Pages: 450 pages, 84 b/w illus. 14 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174. .
This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an account of the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work. The history takes seriously the different experiences within the British Isles and the British Empire, and offers a global history of Britain. Instead of tracing how Britons made the modern world, Vernon shows how the world shaped the course of Britain's modern history. Richly illustrated with figures and maps, the book features textboxes (on particular people, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Cambridge History of Britain
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
588
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107686007
SKU
V9781107686007
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99-2

About James Vernon
James Vernon is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Politics and the People (1993), Hunger: A Modern History (2007) and Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (2014), and the editor of Rereading the Constitution (1996), The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (2011) and the Berkeley Series in British Studies. He ... Read more

Reviews for Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present (Cambridge History of Britain)
'Driven by an emphasis on the profound effects of free trade liberalism, James Vernon's Modern Britain covers vast ground. In lively and accessible prose he charts a coherent narrative of modern Britain attentive to the effects of the world beyond its shores. Vernon does not flinch from portraying the violence underpinning liberalism, and his insistence on writing Britain's history in ... Read more

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