State and Society: A Social and Political History of Britain Since 1870

Part I: The Loss of Confidence, 1870
1.The Retreat of the Industrial Revolution
2.Not Quite a Democracy
3.The Victorian State and its People
4.Victorian Values: Myth and Reality
6.Isolation and Expansion

Part II: The Reorientation: The Emergence of the Interventionist State, 1902
7.The State, Social Welfare and the Economy
8.The Liberal
9.Crisis and Controversy in Edwardian Britain
10.Politics and Society in the Great War

Part III: The Period of Confusion: Collectivism versus Capitalism, 1918
11.The Failure of Laissez-faire
12.Mass Democracy in an Age of Decline
13.The Era of Domesticity

Part IV: Consensus: The Age of the Benign State, 1940
15.The People's War
16.The Keynesian Era
17.The Permissive Society
18.The Loss of Great Power Status

Part V: The Era of Reaction and Decline, 1970
20.The Era of Thatcherism
21.New Labour and the Blair Era
22. Crisis and Coalition