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Book 1
Britain 1815–1918
by Derrick Murphy, Richard Staon, Patrick Walsh-Atkins, and Neil Whiskered
A comprehensive AS and A-level History text on nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Britain, written by a team of experienced teachers and examiners.
Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts and a study skills section for exam preparation.
1 Britain 1815-1918: a synoptic assessment
2 The Tory Party 1815-1830
3 British Foreign Policy, 1815-1846
4 The Great Reform Act of 1832
5 The Whigs, 1833-1841
6 Sir Robert Peel and the Tory/Conservative Party, 1830-1846
7 Chartism
8 Economic change 1815-1846: the growth of railways
9 British domestic politics, 1846-1868
10 British foreign policy in the Age of Palmerston, 1846-1868
11 A mid-Victorian boom? Economic and Social history 1846-1868
12 Gladstone and the Liberal Party
13 The Conservative Party of Disraeli and Salisbury, 1868-1895
14 Ireland and British politics, 1868-1894
15 Foreign and imperial policy, 1868-1895
16 Social and economic change, 1868-1896
17 The era of Conservative domination and the rise of Labour, 1895-1906
18 Joseph Chamberlain and the Empire, 1895-1905
19 Ireland and British politics, 1895-1922
20 The Liberals in power, 1905-1915
21 Britain and the origins of the First World War, 1898-1914
22 The political, social and economic impact, 1914-1918
23 British economy and society, 1896-1914: challenged and transformed?
Europe, 1450-1661
by Derrick Murphy, Patrick Walsh-Atkins, Mike Tillbrook, and Allan Keen
England 1485-1603
by Derrick Murphy, Allan Keen, Michael Tillbrook, and Patrick Walsh-Atkins
This authoritative guide covers the whole Tudor period of English history in one manageable volume, from the reign of Henry VII to Elizabethan England.
Written by A level History teachers and examiners, this student-friendly book includes a number of features to support History teaching and learning, offering historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts and a study skills section for exam preparation.
Chapters:
1. Synoptic overview of the period
2. The reign of Henry VII
3. The Age of Wolsey
4. Social and economic change 1485-1547
5. Religious change under Henry VIII
6. Government, Politics and Foreign Affairs 1529-1547
7. Edward VI
8. Mary I
9. Elizabethan Government and Politics
10. Religion and Elizabethan England
11. Elizabethan Foreign Policy
12. Elizabethan social, economic and cultural history
United States 1776-1992
by Derrick Murphy, Kathryn Cooper, and Mark Waldron
A comprehensive text on American history from this series by teachers and examiners.
Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts and a study skills section for exam preparation.
1 Synoptic Assessment 1776-1992
2 Political Background 1770-1877
3 The West 1800-1900
4 USA 1877-1919
5 USA in 1920s
6 USA in 1930s
7 US Foreign Policy 1898-1945
8 USA and Cold War in Europe 1945-91
9 USA and Cold War in Asia 1945-1975
10 Civil Rights 1900-1992
11 US Domestic Policy 1945-69
12 Nixon to Clinton
Europe 1760-1871
by Derrick Murphy, Terry Morris, Richard Staton, and Sally Waller
A comprehensive AS and A-level History text on Europe in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts and a study skills section for exam preparation.
Synoptic Chapter 1760-1871
1. Enlightened Despotism: A Comparative Study of Frederick the Great, Joseph II and Catherine the Great
2. The causes of the French revolution
3. The French Revolution 1789-99
4. Europe in the Age of the French Revolution 1789-99
5. Napoleon and Europe
6. International Relations from the Congress of Vienna to 1848
7. France 1815-1848
8. The German Confederation and Austria 1815-1848
9. Italy 1815-184
10. Russia 1801-1871
11. The Revolutions of 1848-9
12. France: Republic and Empire 1848-1870
13. The Unification of Italy
14. The Unification of Germany
A comprehensive text on Elizabethan and Stuart history.
Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts and a study skills section for exam preparation.
- Britain 1558-1689: A Synoptic Assessment
- Elizabeth I and Religion
- Elizabethan Foreign Policy
- Elizabethan Government and Finance
- Elizabethan Social and Economic History
- James I, Religion, Parliament, Foreign Policy
- The Causes of the Civil Wars
- The Civil Wars and Interregnum, including an in-depth study of Cromwell
- Charles II
- James II, William III and the Glorious Revolution of 1668-9
- Index
New for the 2008 specification this title covers the end of the Napoleonic War to the fall of Rosebery's Liberal administration.
Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts, a study skills section for exam preparation and a companion website with visuals to support learning.
Contents:
Study and examination skills
1 Britain 1815-1895: A synoptic overview
2 The Tories in government, 1815-1830
3 The Great Reform Act of 1832
4 Chartism
5 Electoral reform in Britain, 1850-1885
6 Poverty, public health and the growth of government, 1830-1875
7 Gladstone, 1868-1894
8 The Conservative Party of Disraeli and Salisbury, 1868-1895
9 British foreign and imperial policy, 1856-1895
10 Ireland, 1798-1922
Index
New for the 2008 specifications this book includes material from Victorian society to the impact of the Second World War.
With historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts, a study skills section for exam preparation and visuals to support learning available online.
Contents:
Study and examination skills
1 Britain 1895-1960: A synoptic overview
2 The changing position of women and the suffrage question, 1860-1930
3 The era of Conservative domination and the rise of Labour ,1895-1906
4 The Liberals in power, 1905-1915
5 The decline of the Liberal Party, 1910-1931
6 Social and economic history, 1918-1939
7 The Conservative Party, 1918-1939
8 The Labour Party, 1918-1939
9 British foreign and imperial policy, 1918-1939
10 The Second World War, 1939-1945
11 Britain and the challenge of Fascism: Saving Europe at a cost? 1925-1960
12 The Labour government, home and abroad, 1945
13 Britain and Ireland, 1914-2007
Index
This brand new title for the 2008 A Level History specifications includes comprehensive factual and interpretive material from the Revolutions of 1848 to the reunification of Germany.
Written by A level History teachers and examiners, this student-friendly book includes a number of features to support History teaching and learning, offering historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts, a study skills section for exam preparation, and extra visual teaching resources available online.
Contents:
Study and examination skills
1 Germany 1848-1991: A synoptic overview
2 The revolutions of 1848 and 1849 in Germany
3 The unification of Germany, 1848-1871
4 Germany under Bismarck, 1871-1890
5 Wilhelm II and Germany, 1888-1918
6 From democracy to dicatorship, 1918-1945
7 Germany divided and reunited, 1945-1991
Index
Britain 1945-2007 includes comprehensive factual and interpretive material, from Winston Churchill to Gordon Brown for the new 2008 specification.
With historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts, a study skills section for exam preparation and visuals to support learning available online.
Contents:
Study and examination skills
1 Britain 1945-2007: A synoptic overview
2 The Impact of the Second World War
3 From Empire to Commonwealth, 1945-2007
4 British Foreign and Defence Policy, 1945-2007
5 The Labour Party 1945-2007
6 The Conservative Party 1945-2007
7 Social and Economic History, 1945-2007
8 Britain and Europe, 1945-2007
Index
New for the 2008 specifications this title covers material from the accession of Tsar Alexander II to the forced resignation of Nikita Khrushchev.
With historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts, a study skills section for exam preparation and visuals to support learning available online.
Contents:
Study and examination skills
1 Russia 1855–1964: A synoptic overview
2 The Tsarist autocracy, 1855–1894: the reigns of Alexander II and Alexander III
3 Russia under Nicholas II: The crisis of Tsarism, 1894–1914
4 The Russian Revolutions, 1914–1924
5 The USSR in the age of Stalin and Khrushchev, 1924–1964
Index
New for the 2008 specifications, this title includes material from the causes of the First World War to the conflict in Iraq.
Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts, a study skills section for exam preparation and a companion website with visuals to support learning.
Contents:
Study and examination skills
1 International Relations 1879-2004: A synoptic overview
2 The causes of the First World War 1879-1918
3 International relations, 1919-1941
4 The Second World War
5 The Cold War in Europe, 1945-1991
6 The USA and the Cold War in Asia, 1945-1973
7 Crisis in the Middle-East, the state of Israel and Arab Nationalism 1945-2004
Index
For the 2008 specifications, this book includes coverage from the causes of the American Revolutionary War to the end of the First World War.
With historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts, a study skills section for exam preparation and visuals to support learning available online.
Contents:
Study and examination skills
1 The United States 1740-1919: A synoptic overview
2 The Struggle for Independence c1740-1783
3 Westward Expansion in the 19th Century
4 The Causes and Course of the Civil War, 1840-1865
5 The Gilded Age' to the First World War, 1865-1919
6 Civil Rights 1865-1919
Index
This new title offers comprehensive coverage for the new 2008 specifications, from the First World War to George W Bush.
Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts, a study skills section for exam preparation and a companion website with visuals to support learning.
Contents:
Study and examination skills
1 The United States 1917-2008: A synoptic overview
2 Boom and Bust: the United States, 1917-1933
3 FDR and the New Deal, 1933-1945
4 US foreign policy, 1917-1945
5 The USA and the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1991
6 The USA and the Cold War in Asia, 1945-1973
7 Civil Rights, 1865-1992
8 US domestic history, 1945-1969
9 From Nixon to George W. Bush, 1969-2008
Index
Britain 1783-1918
by Derrick Murphy, Richard Staton, Patrick Walsh-Atkins, and Neil Whiskerd
A revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Britain 1815-1918.
Includes historical interpretations, document source questions, explanation of difficult words and concepts and a study skills section for exam preparation.
Study and examination skills
1 William Pitt the Younger 1783-1801
2 Britain 1783 -1918: a synoptic assessment
3 The Tory Party 1815-1830
4 British Foreign Policy, 1815-1846
5 The Great Reform Act of 1832
6 The Whigs, 1833-1841
7 Sir Robert Peel and the Tory/Conservative Party, 1830-1846
8 Chartism
9 Economic change 1815-1846: the growth of railways
10 British domestic politics, 1846-1868
11 British foreign policy in the Age of Palmerston, 1846-1868
12 A mid-Victorian boom? Economic and Social history 1846-1868
13 Gladstone and the Liberal Party
14 The Conservative Party of Disraeli and Salisbury, 1868-1895
15 Foreign and imperial policy, 1868-1895
16 Social and economic change, 1868-1896
17 The era of Conservative domination and the rise of Labour, 1895-1906
18 Joseph Chamberlain and the Empire, 1895-1905
19 Britain and Ireland 1798-1921
20 Ireland and British politics, 1895-1922
21 The Liberals in power, 1905-1915
22 Britain and the origins of the First World War, 1898-1914
23 British economy and society, 1896-1914: challenged and transformed?
24 Public health and welfare 1834-1918
25 The political, social and economic impact of the First World War 1914-1918
Further Reading
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