Uniting the Kingdom?

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Assembling distinguished historians of Britain and Ireland, this book explores the whole span of British and UK history. The collection of essays forms an ideal introduction to the most up-to-date thinking about the problems of British history.

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A group of Britain's most prestigious historians assemble to explore the formation of the UK, its history and its identity. Traditional regional and chronological frontiers are broken down as mediev- alists, modernists and early modernists debate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 233mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780415756570
• ISBN-10: 041575657X
• Artikelnr.: 39699838

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