Jürgen Kramer

Britain and Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

A Concise History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Britain and Ireland recounts the history of the two states - the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (Eire) - and four nations - the Irish, the Welsh, the Scottish, and the English - from prehistory to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000762693
• Artikelnr.: 65649611

Autorenporträt

Jürgen Kramer is Emeritus Professor of British Cultural Studies at the University of Dortmund. He is the author of Culture and Intercultural Studies (1990), British Cultural Studies (1997) and Taking Stock: 35 Essays from 35 Years of Studying English-Speaking Cultures (2011). A collection of essays entitled Empire, Exile and the Exotic: Studies on Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and the Sea is in preparation. He co-edited the Journal for the Study of British Cultures (1994-2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Britons
Celts and Romans
c.4000 BC-AD 410 2. Saxons
Danes and Normans
410-1154 3. Late-medieval struggles: within the British Isles and on the Continent
1154-1485 4. Renaissance - reconnaissance - reformation - revolution
1485-1688/9 5. Towards internal stability and external expansion
1689-1789 6. Political reforms
Industrial Revolution
imperial rule
1789-1914 7. The twentieth century: devastation and decline
reconstruction and reorientation
1914-99 8. The twenty-first century: challenges and perspectives