In this hugely ambitious history of Britain Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which the country was transformed into the world s first industrial power. This was an era of revolutionary change unparalleled in Britain yet one in which transformation was achieved without political revolution. The unique combination of transition & revolution is a major theme in the book which ranges across the embryonic empire the Church education health finance & rural & urban life. Evans gives particular attention to the Great Reform Act of 1832. The Third Edition
Includes:: an entirely new introductory chapter & is illustrated for the first time.