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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Smellie, K. B. (Kingsley Bryce), 1897-1987. Great Britain since 1688. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press [1962] (OCoLC)564889660 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
K B Smellie |
| OCLC Number: | 249713 |
| Description: | 462 p. illus. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The economic setting, 1688-1760 -- The revolution of 1689 and the world of Walpole -- Britain and the world, 1688-1763 -- The beginnings of modern industry, 1760-1815 -- A balanced constitution, 1760-1815 -- Britain's wars with the revolutions, 1760-1815 -- The age of reason in British thought -- The workshop of the world, 1815-70 -- Wellington to Gladstone -- Sea power and the balance of power -- Economic vicissitudes, 1870-1914 -- The preface to democracy, 1867-1914 -- Sea power and imperial powers -- British thought from Blake to Darwin -- World war I and after, 1914-39 -- Aspects of democracy, 1914-39 -- The end of laissez faire, 1914-39 -- World war II and the atomic age -- The prece of victory and the cost of welfare -- Politics and government, 1939-61 -- British thought, 1870-1960. |
| Series Title: | The University of Michigan history of the modern world |
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