CONTENTS:

1. The Great Changes
2. Trade and wealth
3. The Great Changes: the countryside
4. The Great Changes: the shrinking provinces
5. The Great Changes: the industrial inventions utilised
6. The Great Changes: new methods of industrial organisation
7. Some political consequences of the Great Changes
8. Some social consequences of the Great Changes: the new towns
9. The life of the wealthy, and others, during the Great Changes
10. Religion during the Great Changes
11. Education during the Great Changes
12. Working class movement during the Great Changes
13. Taking stock
14. The appearance of twentieth-century society
15. The widening scope of government
16. The "Humbler Orders" become Governors
17. The changing nature of Britain’s trade
18. The managerial revolution
19. The common man and the Welfare State
Maps
Graphs