Exam Board: Edexcel

Level: A level

Subject: History

First teaching: September 2015

First exams: June 2017

This book:

• covers the essential content in the new specifications in a rigorous and engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material
• helps develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence, interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities
• provides assessment support for both AS and A level with sample answers, sources, practice questions and guidance to help you tackle the new-style exam questions.

It also comes with three years' access to ActiveBook, an online, digital version of your textbook to help you personalise your learning as you go through the course - perfect for revision.

Endorsed for Edexcel, Challenges to the authority of the state in the late 18th and 19th centuries covers Paper 1 and both Paper 2 options for Route D of the Edexcel AS and A level specification for first teaching from September 2015. The topics covered in this book are: Britain, c1785-c1870: democracy, protest and reform, The unification of Italy, c1830-70 and The unification of Germany, c1840-71