{"product_id":"british-history-displayed-1688-1950-paperback-9781107502178","title":"British History Displayed; 1688–1950 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107502178","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBritish History Displayed\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003e1688–1950\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOriginally published in 1955, this book provides a general framework for one year's syllabus of history teaching in secondary schools.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMargaret M. Elliot (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107502178, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 April 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e362 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOriginally published in 1955, this book was originally intended to provide a general framework for one year's syllabus of history teaching in secondary schools. Elliot covers British and European history from the end of the seventeenth century until the end of the Second World War, illustrating the text with drawings, photographs and maps showing important military campaigns, events, people and fashion trends. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in British history and the history of education.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. 1688–1789 (First Term): 1. Europe about the end of the seventeenth century\u003cbr\u003e 2. Louis XIV of France\u003cbr\u003e 3. William III, the Dutch King of England\u003cbr\u003e 4. The war of the English succession\u003cbr\u003e 5. The war of the Spanish succession\u003cbr\u003e 6. Queen Anne and the Marlboroughs\u003cbr\u003e 7. Queen Anne's London\u003cbr\u003e 8. The country squire\u003cbr\u003e 9. Women's occupations\u003cbr\u003e 10. Food and cooking\u003cbr\u003e 11. Children and their education\u003cbr\u003e 12. Newspapers, music and musicians\u003cbr\u003e 13. A King from Hanover, George I\u003cbr\u003e 14. Sir Robert Walpole\u003cbr\u003e 15. The war of the Austrian succession\u003cbr\u003e 16. Georgian homes\u003cbr\u003e 17. Transport\u003cbr\u003e 18. British and French in North America\u003cbr\u003e 19. British and French in India\u003cbr\u003e 20. William Pitt: the Seven Years War\u003cbr\u003e 21. George III (1760–1820)\u003cbr\u003e 22. The American colonies\u003cbr\u003e 23. The American war\u003cbr\u003e 24. Eighteenth-century village\u003cbr\u003e 25. Bath\u003cbr\u003e 26. The English church in the eighteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 27. Eighteenth-century literature\u003cbr\u003e 28. Painters: musicians: the theatre\u003cbr\u003e 29. The Industrial Revolution: the coming of machines\u003cbr\u003e 30. Ireland in the eighteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 31. Scotland in the eighteenth century\u003cbr\u003e Some suggestions for exercises and discussions\u003cbr\u003e Part II. 1789–1860 (Second Term): 32. The French Revolution, 1789\u003cbr\u003e 33. Britain and the French Revolution: young Mr Pitt\u003cbr\u003e 34. The Napoleonic wars, 1803–15\u003cbr\u003e 35. The Congress of Vienna: nationalism\u003cbr\u003e 36. Central and South America\u003cbr\u003e 37. Writers and musicians in the early nineteenth century\u003cbr\u003e 38. After the wars\u003cbr\u003e years of distress\u003cbr\u003e 39. The Regency: age of the 'dandies'\u003cbr\u003e 40. Canning's foreign policy\u003cbr\u003e 41. Tory reforms: Catholic emancipation\u003cbr\u003e 42. Reforms in factories and mines\u003cbr\u003e 43. Roads and railways\u003cbr\u003e 44. Revolts in France and Belgium, 1830\u003cbr\u003e 45. Parliamentary reform\u003cbr\u003e 46. Young Queen Victoria\u003cbr\u003e 47. The 'hungry forties'\u003cbr\u003e 48. The Crimean War (1854–6)\u003cbr\u003e 49. Socialism and Karl Marx\u003cbr\u003e 50. The year of revolutions, 1848\u003cbr\u003e 51. Material benefits\u003cbr\u003e 52. Mid-Victorian homes and women: the Great Exhibition\u003cbr\u003e 53. Religion in Victorian England\u003cbr\u003e 54. 'Darwinism'\u003cbr\u003e 55. Disraeli and Gladstone: the Treaty of Berlin\u003cbr\u003e 56. India since the days of Clive: the Indian Mutiny\u003cbr\u003e 57. Bismarck and the German Empire\u003cbr\u003e 58. Unification of Italy\u003cbr\u003e 59. Canada and Newfoundland\u003cbr\u003e 60. Australia\u003cbr\u003e 61. New Zealand\u003cbr\u003e 62. The exploration and partition of Africa\u003cbr\u003e Some suggestions for exercises and discussions\u003cbr\u003e Part III. 1860–1950 (Third Term): 63. The United States\u003cbr\u003e 64. British soldiers and sailors\u003cbr\u003e 65. Education in nineteenth-century England\u003cbr\u003e 66. Trade unions and socialism\u003cbr\u003e 67. The Far East: China and Japan\u003cbr\u003e 68. British and Boers in South Africa: the Boer War\u003cbr\u003e 69. Sail and return\u003cbr\u003e 70. Road transport in the later nineteenth century: balloons\u003cbr\u003e 71. Gladstone and the Irish question\u003cbr\u003e 72. The Egyptian question\u003cbr\u003e 73. Gladstone's third ministry (1885–6): Lord Salisbury\u003cbr\u003e 74. The British Empire in 1900\u003cbr\u003e 75. Emancipated women\u003cbr\u003e 76. The old Queen and her family\u003cbr\u003e 77. Some Victorian writers\u003cbr\u003e 78. The turn of the century 1890–1910\u003cbr\u003e 79. Edward VII (1901–10)\u003cbr\u003e 80. Education: social reform\u003cbr\u003e 81. The United States in the modern world\u003cbr\u003e 82. World War I\u003cbr\u003e 83. The treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919\u003cbr\u003e 84. The League of Nations\u003cbr\u003e 85. Ireland after World War I\u003cbr\u003e 86. The troubled twenties\u003cbr\u003e 87. 'Empire' into 'Commonwealth'\u003cbr\u003e 88. India\u003cbr\u003e 89. Soviet Russia\u003cbr\u003e 90. War clouds threaten again\u003cbr\u003e 91. Causes of World War II\u003cbr\u003e 92. The Second World War, 1939–45\u003cbr\u003e 93. Post-war changes in the British Empire\u003cbr\u003e 94. The modern world\u003cbr\u003e Some suggestions for exercises and discussions\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265756909848,"sku":"9781107502178","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107502178i_48eafec2-94ee-4abb-a02b-3c07e90b2722.jpg?v=1696754976","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/british-history-displayed-1688-1950-paperback-9781107502178","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}