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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... period of introspection and a reconsideration of traditional imperial perspectives in which the United Kingdom appeared as the civilising centre of a large and successful empire. Where previously there had been a remarkably unanimous ...
... period was in fact the composite monarchy, viz. monarchies ruling territories with more than one people and culture, and originally distinct kingdoms and principalities with a common king. In other European historiographies a state ...
... period of expansion which saw the transformation of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom over the following 250 years into a multinational entity covering large parts of Ireland, Scotland and Wales and in which the English kingdom was also closely ...
... periods of sabbatical leave, in 1993–4 (when I escaped to Cambridge) and again in 2002, during which I did much of the writing. Progress slowed again when I became head of department, but I was then extremely fortunate that my former ...
... period covered by this volume witnessed both the gradual accumulation of power and authority into a single imperium which by 1603 covered the whole of the British Isles, and also the earliest phases of the attempt to integrate its ...
Contents
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2 Politics war and diplomacy 14501502 | 27 |
3 The revival of crown government | 55 |
Renaissance monarchy 150260 | 83 |
the origins of a Protestant state | 121 |
reform in the parishes | 148 |
7 State intervention and the problems of society | 183 |
8 The emergence of a British state system 156084 | 215 |
9 The testingtime of the Protestant state system 15841603 | 254 |
10 British multiple monarchy 160337 | 289 |
11 The destruction and restoration of multiple monarchy 163760 | 333 |
Conclusion | 372 |
Bibliography | 379 |
Index | 401 |
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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 |