History of the Peoples of the British Isles

<p>Volume III deals with the 'long twentieth century'. Its main themes are:<br>* the contraction of British industrial power and the shift to a service-based economy<br>* the decline of Victorianism and the rise of Modernism<br>* the climax of class society between the wars and the blurring of class lines after the 1960s<br>* the impact of two world wars<br>* the decline of British power and the empire<br>* the partition of Ireland<br>* the devolution of power to Wales and Scotland.</p>