20世纪的英国经历了纷繁复杂的内外部变化。在内部,固守传统与改革创新持续对立,经济萧条、**矛盾和地区分野时常引发社会和政府内部的冲突,在外部,两次世界大战中英国均遭受巨大冲击,殖民地民族主义运动声势渐大,大英帝国不断衰落。
然而,20世纪对于英国来说又是一个社会进步、成功转型的时代,历经沧桑的不列颠仍然维持了其大国的地位。那么,这个世纪的英国遇到了哪些危机和挑战?它又是如何应变与调整的?《20世纪英国:帝国与遗产》在详论这些问题的同时,从政治、经济、社会和文化等各方面给读者展现了一幅20世纪英国的全景图。

Chapter 1 The First World War
At the Lord Mayor of London's annual banquet at the Mansion House on 17 July 1914, the chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, issued stern warnings about the ominous condition of British society. At home, the 'triple alliance' of miners, railwaymen, and transport workers was threatening a mass united strike to back up the railwaymen's claim for union recognition and a 48-hour week. Alongside this prospect of nationwide industrial paralysis, there was across the Irish Sea a state of near civil war in Ireland, with 2oo,ooo or more under arms in Protestant Ulster and the Catholic south, and the likelihood of the age-long saga of Irish nationalism being brought to a grim and bloody resolution. Abroad, there were nationalist troubles in India and in Egypt. Nearer home in south-east Europe, the ethnic nationalities of the Balkans were in renewed turmoil following the assassination of the Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, at Sarajevo in Bosnia on 28 June.

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地图目录
**章**次世界大战
第二章20年代
第三章30年代
第四章第二次世界大战
第五章战后的世界
第六章从70年代到90年代
第七章走向新的千年
年表
历任首相名录1914-2000

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