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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... century peak of 5.25 million by 1651.2 Estimates for Wales suggest a population of just 200,000 in 1500 and 230,000 in 1550 , but rising quite steeply to 317,000 by 1601 and almost 400,000 by 1650.3 Even less reliably , the population ...
... century , but wage rates only doubled , so causing distress among the poor . In the half - century after 1600 , grain prices rose more slowly , but wage rates also rose . Historians have constructed various indices to illustrate the ...
... century ' in Boyce , D.G. , et al . ( eds ) , Political thought in Ireland since the seventeenth century . Ó Buachalla , Breandán ( 1996 ) , Aisling Ghéar : na Stíobhartaigh an t - aos léinn ( Dublin ) . Ó hAnnracháin , Tadhg ( 1997 ) ...
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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 |