Alexander Grant / Keith Stringer (eds.)

Uniting the Kingdom?

The Making of British History
Herausgeber: Grant, Alexander; Stringer, Keith

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Produktbeschreibung

In Uniting the Kingdom? a group of the most distinguished historians from Britain and Ireland assemble to consider the question of British identity spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the present. Traditional chronological and regional frontiers are broken down as medievalists, early modernists and modernists debate the key issues of the British state: the conflicting historiographies, the nature of political tensions and the themes of expansion and contraction. This outstanding collection of essays forms an illuminating introduction to the most up-to-date thinking about the problems of British histories and identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780415130417
• ISBN-10: 0415130417
• Artikelnr.: 22407882

Autorenporträt

Alexander Grant (University of Lancaster, UK) (Edited by) , K J Stringer (Edited by)

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Prologue 1 Introduction: The enigma of British History 2 British
History as a 'new subject': Politics, perspectives and prospects Part II
Medieval foundations 3 The United Kingdom of England: The Anglo-Saxon
achievement 4 Foundations of a disunited kingdom 5 Overlordship and
reaction, c. 1200-c. 1450 6 Scottish foundations: Thirteenth-century
perspectives Late medieval contributions Part III Building the early modern
state 7 The High Road from Scotland: Stewarts and Tudors in the
mid-sixteenth century, One king, two kingdoms, 8 Composite monarchies in
early modern Europe: The British and Irish example 9 Irish, Scottish and
Welsh responses to centralisation, c. 1530-c. 1640: A comparative
perspective 10 Three kingdoms and one commonwealth? The enigma of
mid-seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland Part IV The age of Union 11
Varieties of Britishness: Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the Hanoverian
state 12 A nation defined by Empire, 1755-1776 13 Englishness and
Britishness: National identities, c. 1790-c. 1870 14 An imperial and
multinational polity: The 'scene from the centre', 1832-1922 15 Letting go:
The Conservative Party and the end of the Union with Ireland Part V
Epilogue 16 How united is the modern United Kingdom? 17 Conclusion:
Contingency, identity, sovereignty