State and Society Fourth Edition

Martin Pugh was Professor of British History at Newcastle University and Research Professor in History at Liverpool John Moores University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the advisory panel of the BBC History Magazine, and the author of over twelve books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. His previous publications include Women and the Women's Movement in Britain 1914-1959, A Companion to Modern European History 1871-1945, The Pankhursts: The History of One Radical Family, Speak for Britain: A New History of the Labour Party and We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars.

List of illustrations
List of tables and figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I The Loss of Confidence, 1870-1902
1 The retreat of the Industrial Revolution
2 Not quite a democracy
3 The Victorian state and its people
4 Victorian values: myth and reality
5 The British nation: unity and division
6 Isolation and expansion
Part II The Reorientation: The Emergence of the Interventionist State, 1902-1918
7 The state, social welfare and the economy
8 The Liberal-Labour alliance
9 Crisis and controversy in Edwardian Britain
10 Politics and society in the Great War
Part III The Period of Confusion: Collectivism versus Capitalism, 1918-1940
11 The failure of laissez-faire
12 Mass democracy in an age of decline
13 The era of domesticity
14 Imperial climax and decline
Part IV Consensus: The Age of the Benign State, 1940-1970
15 The people's war
16 The Keynesian era
17 The permissive society
18 The loss of Great-Power status
Part V The Era of Reaction and Decline, 1970-2011
19 The breakdown of the post-war consensus, 1970-1979
20 The era of Thatcherism
21 New Labour and the Blair era
22 The Coalition era
Guide to Further Reading
Index