Flagship History

1 primary work • 17 total works

Britain, 1815-1918

by Derrick Murphy, Richard Staon, Patrick Walsh-Atkins, and Neil Whiskered

Published 2 April 1998

A comprehensive study of 19th century-British history which adopts the approach that will be required by the post-1998 A Level syllabuses. It is presented in a clear and easy-to-follow format and includes keypoints that reinforce the narrative. Study skills and worked questions for the major examination boards are also included.

Europe, 1450-1661

by Derrick Murphy, Patrick Walsh-Atkins, Mike Tillbrook, and Allan Keen

Published 20 February 2000

A comprehensive AS and A-level History text on Early Modern Europe, written by a team of experienced teachers who are also examiners. Includes: *Europe 1450-1661: a synoptic assessment *The Italian Renaissance and voyages of discovery *The Ottoman Empire *The Reformation *The Holy Roman Empire under Maximilian I and Charles V, 1493-1556 *Spain 1450-1566 *Renaissance France 1450-1559 *The Catholic and Counter Reformations *Phillip of Spain 1556-1598 *The Dutch Revolt *The French Wars of Religion and the reign of Henry IV (1559-1610) *The rise of Sweden in the 16th and 17th centuries *The decline of Spain?1558-1659 *The development of France during the reign of Louis XIII and the minority of Louis XIV 1610-1661 *The Thirty Years War *Social and economic history c. 1450-1661

Europe, 1870-1991

by Terry Morris and Derrick Murphy

Published 20 May 2000

A comprehensive AS and A-level History text on Europe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, written by experienced teachers who are also examiners. 1) Synoptic Chapter: Europe 1870-1989 2) The Consolidation of Russian Conservatism 1855-1894 3) Germany under Bismarck 1871-1890 4) The Third French Republic 5) The Crisis of Russian Aristocracy 1894-1917 6) Germany and Austria-Hungary 1890-1914 7) The Causes and Course of the First World War 8) Russia in Revolution 1917-1924 9) The USSR under Stalin 1924-1953 10) Democracy in Crisis between the Wars: France, Spain, Hungary, Poland 11) Italy 1870-1945 12) Germany 1918-1945 13) International Relations 1919-1945 14) The Second World War 15) The Cold War 16) The Move to Western European Union

England 1485-1603

by Derrick Murphy, Allan Keen, Michael Tillbrook, and Patrick Walsh-Atkins

Published 1 February 1999

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

Published 20 November 2001

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

Published 20 October 2000

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

Britain 1558-1689

by Derrick Murphy, Elizabeth Sparey, and Irene Carrier

Published 20 November 2002

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

Britain 1815-1895

by Derrick Murphy, Patrick Walsh-Atkins, and Neil Whiskerd

Published 3 March 2008

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

Britain 1895-1951

by Derrick Murphy, Graham Goodlad, and Richard Staton

Published 19 May 2008

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

Germany 1848-1991

by Derrick Murphy, Terry Morris, and Mary Fulbrook

Published 3 March 2008

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

by Derrick Murphy and Patrick Walsh-Atkins

Published 13 June 2008

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

Russia 1855–1964

by Derrick Murphy and Terry Morris

Published 11 April 2008

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

International Relations 1879-2004

by Derrick Murphy and Terry Morris

Published 8 April 2008

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

United States 1740-1919

by Derrick Murphy, Mark Waldron, and Kathryn Cooper

Published 30 May 2008

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

United States 1917-2008

by Derrick Murphy and Kathryn Cooper

Published 11 April 2008

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

Published 20 April 2003

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
Index

Italy 1815-1943

by Derrick Murphy and Terry Morris

Published 3 March 2008

This new title for the 2008 specification, offers factual and interpretive material from the Vienna Settlement to the fall of Mussolini. 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 Italy 1815--1943: A synoptic overview 2 Italy, 1815--1848 3 The unification of Italy 1848--1870 4 The failure of the liberal state and the rise of Italian Fascism, 1870--1922 5 Mussolini's Italy 1922--1943 Index