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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... Northern men at a town , there fell in a variance for their lodging , and so the earl of Devonshire departed from the earl of Pembroke with all his men . 43 In the aftermath , Earl Rivers and the earls of Devon and Pembroke were ...
... northern plantation alienated those whom the king needed to win over to broaden his support , and it also created a group of influential royal servants with a strong vested interest in the land settlement . Tradi- tionally , much ...
... northern magnates into a coherent Catholic block , and so formed the background to the Northern Rising of 1569–70.13 Elizabethan finance Reliance on outsiders to rule the borders also compounded the government's difficulties in regard ...
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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 |