The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660The history of the British Isles is the story of four peoples linked together by a process of state building that was as much about far-sighted planning and vision as coincidence, accident and failure. It is a history of revolts and reversal, familial bonds and enmity, the study of which does much to explain the underlying tension between the nations of modern day Britain. The Making of the British Islesrecounts the development of the nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland from the time of the Anglo-French dual monarchy under Henry VI through the Wars of the Roses, the Reformation crisis, the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the Anglo-Scottish dynastic union, the British multiple monarchy and the Cromwellian Republic, ending with the acts of British Union and the Restoration of the Monarchy.
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... attempted , with only partial success , to integrate its constituent nations and territories into a collective British nation whose national territory was co - extensive with the British Isles . The high points in this process were the ...
... Attempts by Henry and Wolsey to persuade the Spaniards , the Emperor , and the Swiss to fight him came to nought . So , with the king running out of money , Wolsey attempted in 1518 to recapture the moral high ground by a treaty of ...
... attempted a revolt in Ireland in the latter sixteenth century without soliciting mercenary aid in the Isles'.47 Known as redshanks , these landless Scots mercenaries had become a staple of warfare throughout Ulster and northern ...
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The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660 Steven G. Ellis No preview available - 2007 |