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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... society was based on kinship modified by feudalism , Lowland society on feudalism tempered by kinship ' . " This statement was true also of many other parts of upland Britain , where bonds of kinship were frequently more important than ...
... society , governed through centralised administrative structures , had already emerged in England by the thirteenth century . Surveys of early Tudor government and society likewise focus on the operation of these supposedly standard ...
... society in Elizabethan Sussex , pp . 241-8 ; Haigh , Reformation and resistance in Tudor Lancashire , p . 213 . 55 Mervyn James , Family , lineage and civil society : a study of society , politics , and mentality in the Durham region ...
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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 |