UID:
edocfu_9959230287902883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 310 pages)
ISBN:
1-134-79187-9
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1-134-79188-7
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1-280-05731-9
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0-203-43482-X
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0-203-28840-8
Content:
A group of Britain's most prestigious historians assemble to explore the formation of the UK, its history and its identity. Traditional regional and chronological frontiers are broken down as mediev- alists, modernists and early modernists debate.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: The enigma of British History; British History as a 'new subject': Politics, perspectives and prospects; The United Kingdom of England: The Anglo-Saxon achievement; Foundations of a disunited kingdom; Overlordship and reaction, c. 1200 c. 1450; Composite monarchies in early modern Europe: The British and Irish example; Irish, Scottish and Welsh responses to centralisation, c. 1530 c. 1640: A comparative perspective; Three kingdoms and one commonwealth? The enigma of mid-seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland
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Varieties of Britishness: Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the Hanoverian state A nation defined by Empire, 1755 1776; Englishness and Britishness: National identities, c. 1790 c. 1870; An imperial and multinational polity: The 'scene from the centre', 1832 1922; Letting go: The Conservative Party and the end of the Union with Ireland; How united is the modern United Kingdom?; Conclusion: Contingency, identity, sovereignty; Inde
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-75657-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-13041-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203434826
