From the Book - 1st American ed.
Ethelbert of Kent to the Viking invasions (597/865)
Alfred the Great to the Battle of Hastings (865/1066)
Stephen of Blois (1135/1154)
The Commonwealth and Protectorate (1649/1660)
William and Mary (1689/1702)
The French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (1793/1815)
Radical agitation (1815/1820)
Corn laws and Irish famine (1837/1854)
Palmerstonian aggression (1854/1868)
Gladstone and Disraeli (1868/1886)
Imperialism and socialism (1886/1901)
Last years of peace (1910/1914)
The First World War (1914/1918)
Peacemaking and the rise of Fascism (1918/1936)
The failure of appeasement (1936/1939)
The Second World War (1939/1945)
Reform at home, Communism abroad (1945/1952)
Wind of change (1952/1964)
The sick man of Europe (1964/1979)
The Thatcher legacy (1979/2002)
