Penier, Izabella - An Outline of British and American History (2014).pdf

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Contents

Foreword ...........................................................................................................................

GB – Earliest times and the Middle Ages

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1: From the Earliest Times to the Second Nordic Invasion ...............................................

2: The Second Nordic Invasion and the Norman Conquest ............................................. 12

3: Life in Medieval Britain ............................................................................................... 19

GB – The Tudors and the Stuarts

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1: The Tudors, the Reformation, the Renaissance and the Sea Power ..............................

2: The Stuart Era ............................................................................................................. 28

3: The Restoration and the First British Empire ............................................................... 34

GB – The 19

century

....................................................................................................... 41

1: The Napoleonic Wars, the Industrial Revolution and the Beginning

of the Second British Empire........................................................................................ 41

2: The Second British Empire and Social Reforms ........................................................... 47

3: The Victorian Era and the Great War .......................................................................... 51

USA – The settlement and the American Revolution

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1: The Colonial Period .................................................................................................... 55

2: The War of Independence........................................................................................... 61

3: Forming of the New Nation; Westward Expansion and Regional Differences .............. 68

USA – The 19

century

..................................................................................................... 73

1: The Civil War .............................................................................................................. 73

2: Reconstruction, the Closing of the Frontier, and the Industrial Revolution .................. 78

3: The American Empire, Progressivism and Word War I ................................................. 84

The 20

Century in Great Britain and the USA

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1: The Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism ........................................................... 91

2: World War II and Great Britain in the second half of the 20

century.......................... 98

3: The USA in the second half of the 20

century ............................................................ 104

Bibliography ...................................................................................................................... 111