7th Edition

A History of England, Volume 2 1688 to the Present

416 Pages 114 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

416 Pages 114 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past from its first inhabitants to the 2020s. A History of England, Volume 2: 1688 to the Present focuses on the key social, economic, cultural, environmental,... Read more

16. War and Society

17. An Age of Stability: 1714–1760

18. The Economic and Social Transformation of England: 1761–1815

19. The Intellectual Transformation

20. Politics in the Reign of George III

21. Diplomacy and War in the Age of Revolution

22. Conservatism, Liberalism, and Reform

23. An Age of Prosperity

24. Victorianism

25. The British Empire

26. An Age of Crisis: 1873–1914

27. Britain and World War I

28. Britain Between the Wars

29. Britain and World War II

30. Life in Socialist Britain

31. Britain: 1945–1979

32. The End of Socialism? Britain, 1979–2022

Biography

Douglas Bisson is Professor of History at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of The Merchant Adventurers of England: The Company and the Crown, 1474–1564.

Clayton Roberts was Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of The Growth of Responsible Government in Stuart England and Schemes and Undertakings: A Study of English Politics in the Seventeenth Century.

David Roberts was Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Paternalism in Early Victorian England and The Social Conscience of the Early Victorians.