Download or read book Empire, Welfare State, Europe written by Trevor Owen Lloyd and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 20th century, England has lost an empire, built a welfare state and begun to accept the idea of belonging to Europe. This revised modern history text has been updated to examine the major currents of change and to include the political situation up to the election of 1992.