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Uniting the Kingdom? : the making of British history /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Grant, Alexander, Stringer, K. J. (Keith John)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / P.K. O'Brien
  • Introduction : the enigma of British history / Alexander Grant and Keith Stringer
  • British history as a 'new subject' : politics, perspectives and prospects / David Cannadine
  • The United Kingdom of England : the Anglo-Saxon achievement / James Campbell Foundations of a disunited kingdom / John GIllingham
  • Overlordship and reaction, c.1200-c.1450 / Robin Frame
  • Scottish foundations : thirteenth-century perspectives / Keith Stringer ; Late medieval contributions / Alexander Grant
  • The high road from Scotland : Stewarts and Tudors in the mid-sixteenth century / Marcus Merriman ; One king, two kingdoms / Jenny Wormald
  • Composite monarchies in early modern Europe : the British and Irish example / Conrad Russell
  • Irish, Scottish and Welsh responses to centralisation, c.1530-c.1640 : a comparative perspective / Nicholas Canny
  • Three kingdoms and one commonwealth? : the enigma on mid-seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland / John Morrill.
  • Varieties of Britishness : Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the Hanoverian state / S.J. Connolly
  • A nation defined by Empire, 1755-1776 / P.J. Marshall
  • Englishness and Britishness : national identities, c.1790-c.1870 / Eric Evans
  • An imperial and multinational polity : the 'scene from the centre', 1832-1922 / Keith Robbins
  • Letting go : the Conservative Party and the end of the union with Ireland / John Turner
  • How united is the modern United Kingdom / David Marquand
  • Conclusion : contingency, identity, sovereignty / J.G.A. Pocock.