Part I The Age of the Landed Oligarchy, 1688-1763
1 The Lands and Peoples of the British lsles at the End of the Seventeenth Century
2The Revolution of 1688 and the Revolution Settlement
3 Society and Economy in Eighteenth-Century England
4 Political Structure and Politics in Augustan England
5 Religion, Rationality, and Recreation: Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
6 Scotland in the Eighteenth Century
7 The Expansion of British Power and Empire, 1715-1763

Part II The Age of Revolutions, 1763-1815
8 The Crisis of Empire, 1763-1783
9 The Rise of the Protestant Nation in Ireland
10 The Triple Revolution, 1760-1815
11 The War Against the French Revolution, 1789-1815
12 Intellectual and Spiritual Revolutions, 1780-18151

Part III The Rise of Victorian Society, 1815-1870
13 The Emerging Class Society, 1815-1850
14 Politics and the State, 1815-1850
15 Ireland from the Union to the Famine
16 Mid-Victorian Society and Culture, 1850-1870
17 The Overflow of Power: British Empire and Foreign Policy, 1815-1870

Part IV The Decline of Victorian Britain, 1870-1914
18 Upheaval in Economy and Society, 1870-1914
19 Crisis of Confidence, 1870-1914
20 Revival on the Celtic Fringe
21 Politics and the State, 1867-1914
22 The British Empire and the Coming of War, 1870-1914

Appendixes
A Kings and Queens of Great Britain, 1685-1914
B Chief Cabinet Ministers, 1721-1914

Index