This new book from Eric Evans will survey every aspect of the period in which Britain was transformed into the world's first industrial power. Ranging across the embryonic empire, the Church, education, health, finance and rural and urban life, "The Making of Modern Britain "is an unparalleled accou[...]

The Java EE 6 Tutorial: Basic Concepts, Fourth Edition, is a task-oriented, example-driven guide to developing enterprise applications for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6). Written by members of the Java EE 6 documentation team at Oracle, this book provides new and intermediate Ja[...]

The Java EE 7 Tutorial: Volume 2, Fifth Edition, is a task-oriented, example-driven guide to developing enterprise applications for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7). Written by members of the Java EE documentation team at Oracle, this book provides new and intermediate Java progra[...]

An account of the crucial political and economic issues behind the 1832 Reform Act. This book highlights the travails of Toryism at the end of the 1820s, clarifies complex questions of policy, shows the connections between the Reform Act of 1832 and the Second Reform Act, and updates statistics.[...]

Provides an introduction to the life and career of Sir Robert Peel - one of the most important political leaders of the nineteenth century. This book assesses Peel's career, and includes a glossary of key terms, plus a bibliography.[...]

The theme of Professor Evans' book is the growth of a recognizable modern party system from the much looser and often family-based attachments from the eighteenth century. Many periods and topics are dealt with in this comprehensive book.[...]

Describing the period 1815-1832 as 'The birth of a new age', this book considers the tremendous forces of change operating after industrialisation and discusses the achievement of Lord Liverpool's administration in containing these pressures, thereby leading the way to evolutionary change rather tha[...]