A People’s History of England

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Half Title
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
I TRIBES AND LEGIONS
	1. The Iberians
	2. The Celtic Tribes
	3. Roman Britain
	4. The Roman Twilight
II THE GROWTH OF FEUDALISM
	1. The English Conquest
	2. The Township
	3. Christianity
	4. The Northmen
	5. The End of Saxon England
III FEUDAL ENGLAND
	1. The Conquest
	2. The Social Structure of Domesday England
	3. State: Baron: Church
	4. Foreign Relations
	5. The Great Charter
IV THE DECLINE OF FEUDALISM
	1. Trade and Towns
	2. Parliamentary Origins
	3. Wales: Ireland: Scotland
	4. The Hundred Years’ War and the Revolution in Military Technique
	5. The Black Death
	6. The Peasants’ Rising
	7. The Political Significance of the Lollard Heresy
V THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
	1. A Century of Paradox
	2. Parliament and the House of Lancaster
	3. The Hundred Years’ War – II
	4. The Wars of the Roses
VI THE NEW MONARCHY AND THE BOURGEOISIE
	1. The Clothing Industry
	2. The Discoveries
	3. The Agrarian Revolution
	4. The Tudor Monarchy
	5. The Reformation in England
	6. The Counter-Reformation and the Elizabethan Settlement
VII ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
	1. The Struggle with Spain
	2. The Chartered Companies
	3. Crown and Parliament
	4. The Puritans
	5. Fundamental Issues in the English Revolution
VIII THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
	1. The Long Parliament: Classes and Parties
	2. The Civil War
	3. Regicide
	4. The Levellers
IX COMMONWEALTH AND COMPROMISE
	1. Ireland: Scotland
	2. The Commonwealth
	3. The Compromise of 1660
	4. The Compromise of 1688
X WHIG ENGLAND
	1. War Finance
	2. Party Politics
	3. Colonial War
	4. The American Revolution
	5. War and Industry
XI THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
	1. Agriculture
	2. Fuel, Iron and Transport
	3. Textiles: the Speenhamland Experiment
	4. The French Revolution
	5. The Napoleonic Wars
XII THE TRIUMPH OF INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM
	1. England after Waterloo
	2. The War in the Villages
	3. Factory Legislation
	4. The Roots of Liberalism
	5. The Reform Bill
XIII LIBERAL ASCENDANCY
	1. The New Poor Law and the Railway Age
	2. The Corn Laws
	3. Foreign Politics: Palmerston to Disraeli
	4. The Second Reform Bill
XIV THE ORGANISATION OF THE WORKING CLASS
	1. Revolutionary Trade Unionism
	2. The Chartists
	3. The New Model
	4. Socialism and the Organisation of the Unskilled
	5. The War for the Land and the National Struggle in Ireland
XV COLONIAL EXPANSION
	1. India
	2. Canada and Australia
	3. Egypt
	4. Tropical and South Africa
XVI ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
	1. Imperialism
	2. Triple Alliance, Triple Entente
	3. Internal Crisis,1906-1914
	4. The Road to Sarajevo
XVII WORLD WAR: WORLD CRISIS
	1. The First World War
	2. The Home Front
A Note About Books
Bibliography
	I General Works
	II Prehistory and Roman Britain (Ch.I)
	III Anglo-Saxon England and Early Midlle Ages
	IV Later Middle Ages (Chs.IV and V)
	V Tudor England (Chs.VI and VII)
	VI The English Revolution (Chs.VII to IX)
	VII The Eightenth Century (Ch.X)
	VIIII The Industrial Revolution
	IX The Nineteenth Century and Later (Ch.XII to end)
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