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A survey of the history of the United Kingdom (England & Wales, Scotland, and Ireland) since the Glorious Revolution. Covers the Age of Aristocracy and the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and its social and political consequences, loss of the American colonies, the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, Regency and Victorian England, the rise of the Welfare State, the Age of Churchill, and contemporary Britain. Attention is given to political development and reform, empire, economic life, foreign relations, war, and changes in society and culture.