Mastering Modern British History, 4ed

Cover
 Contents
 List of maps
 List of tables
 List of illustrations
 List of figures
 Preface to the fourth edition
 Acknowledgements
 1 Introduction
 1.1 Prologue: Waterloo
 1.2 Themes of change after 1815
 2 Britain under the Tories, 1815-30
 Summary of events
 2.1 What were the British political parties in 1815, and what did they stand for?
 2.2 Why was there so much discontent and distress among ordinary people after 1815?
 2.3 How was the discontent expressed?
 2.4 What steps did Liverpool's government take to combat the unrest in the period before 1820? 2.5 Who were the 'liberal' Tories and why did Lord Liverpool bring them into the government in 1822-3?2.6 What reforms did the 'liberal' Tories introduce between 1822 and 1830 to deserve this title?
 2.7 Why did the Tory party disintegrate in 1830?
 2.8 Verdict on the Tories
 QUESTIONS
 3 Foreign affairs, 1815-30
 Summary of events
 3.1 What were the aims of the statesmen who met at Vienna in 1814-15, and to what extent were their aims fulfilled in the Vienna Settlement?
 3.2 What were the aims and achievements of Lord Castlereagh in foreign affairs after the Congress of Vienna (1815)? 3.3 What were the aims and achievements of Canning in foreign affairs (1822-7), and how did his policies differ from those of Castlereagh?QUESTIONS
 4 Parliament and the Great Reform Act of 1832
 Summary of events
 4.1 How are laws made?
 4.2 What was wrong with the system before the Great Reform Act?
 4.3 Why did the demand for reform revive in 1829-30?
 4.4 Why was there so much opposition to reform?
 4.5 The passing of the Bill
 4.6 What were the terms of the Act, and how far did they put right the faults of the system?
 QUESTIONS
 5 Whig reforms and failures, 1833-41
 Summary of events. 5.1 The Whig attitude to reform5.2 The first round of reforms: slavery, factories and education (1833)
 5.3 Reform of the Poor Law: the Poor Law Amendment Act (1834)
 5.4 Reform of town government: the Municipal Corporations Act (1835)
 5.5 Other Whig reforms
 5.6 Why did the Whigs lose the 1841 election?
 QUESTIONS
 6 Chartism
 Summary of events
 6.1 Why did the Chartist movement come into existence?
 6.2 How did the Chartist movement begin, and what sort of people joined it?
 6.3 What were the Chartists' aims and how did they hope to achieve them? 6.4 The three phases of the Chartist movement6.5 Why were the Chartists unsuccessful in the 1840s, and what was the significance of the movement?
 6.6 When was the Chartists' political programme achieved?
 QUESTIONS
 7 Sir Robert Peel, the Conservatives and the Corn Laws, 1830-46
 Summary of events
 7.1 Peel and the revival of the Tory/Conservative party
 7.2 What did Peel do to help the British economy?
 7.3 What did Peel do about Britain's social problems?
 7.4 Peel, O'Connell and Ireland
 7.5 The struggle for the repeal of the Corn Laws, 1838-46.