A History of Britain 1885-1939 (British Studies Series)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780312220334
Subjects: Great Britain - History - 20th Century; History; History - General History; History: World; Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Edward VII, 1901-1910; George V, 1910-1936; George VI, 1936-1952
Description: "The period between 1885 and 1939 was a pivotal half-century in British history in which the Victorian political system yielded to a system far more recognisably modern in response to popular pressure for social reform and the implications of global superpower status."--BOOK JACKET. "Dr. Davis relates these political developments to the background of social and economic change and to the consequences of Britain's position as an imperial power. Drawing extensively upon the new historical scholarship of the 1980s and 1990s, John Davis presents an original analysis of political change in a crucial period of Britain's recent past."--Jacket.