England Since Waterloo - Softcover

John Arthur Ransome Marriott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371385318 ISBN 13: 9780371385319

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

England Since Waterloo by John Arthur Ransome Marriott. This opening portion of the historical survey sets out the book’s aims, approach, and central themes to be developed across the volume. It situates the narrative in the aftermath of Napoleon’s defeat, tracing Britain’s emergence as a global power while balancing domestic economic distress with sweeping changes in industry, agriculture, transport, and urban life. The work foregrounds the gradual shift of political power from the aristocracy to the middle classes and, later, to urban workers, alongside evolving local government and representative institutions. It discusses state intervention in economics, moving from laissez-faire toward increasing legislative activity addressing labor, poverty, sanitation, education, and social welfare. The social fabric—distress, unemployment, and unrest in a period of reform or repression—receives careful attention, as do Britain’s foreign policy and imperial expansion within the Concert of Europe and a growing global role. Economic and monetary policy, debt, taxation, and the beginnings of fiscal reform are linked to broader social change, while the rise of new social movements—trade unions, cooperation, early socialism—signals evolving organization of labor. The excerpt also presents the table of contents and outlines Book I’s introductory framework, anchoring a broader arc that moves from domestic upheaval to imperial and international dimensions.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371385318
• ISBN 13: 9780371385319
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 605