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      The Making of British History

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      The Making of British History
      Edited ByAlexander Grant, Keith Stringer
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1995
      eBook Published 30 November 1995
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203434826
      Pages 322
      eBook ISBN 9780203434826
      Subjects Humanities
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      Grant, A., & Stringer, K. (Eds.). (1995). Uniting the Kingdom?: The Making of British History (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203434826

      ABSTRACT

      In Uniting the Kingdom? a group of the most distinguished historians from Britain and Ireland assemble to consider the question of British identity spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the present.
      Traditional chronological and regional frontiers are broken down as medievalists, early modernists and modernists debate the key issues of the British state: the conflicting historiographies, the nature of political tensions and the themes of expansion and contraction.
      This outstanding collection of essays forms an illuminating introduction to the most up-to-date thinking about the problems of British histories and identities.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|9 pages

      Introduction

      The enigma of British History
      ByAlexander Grant, Keith Stringer

      chapter 2|19 pages

      British History as a ‘new subject’

      Politics, perspectives and prospects
      ByDavid Cannadine

      chapter 3|17 pages

      The United Kingdom of England

      The Anglo-Saxon achievement
      ByJames Campbell

      chapter 4|17 pages

      Foundations of a disunited kingdom

      ByJohn Gillingham

      chapter 5|20 pages

      Overlordship and reaction, c. 1200–c. 1450

      ByRobin Frame

      chapter 6|26 pages

      Scottish foundations: Thirteenth-century perspectives

      ByKeith Stringer, Alexander Grant

      chapter 7|22 pages

      The High Road from Scotland: Stewarts and Tudors in the mid-sixteenth century

      ByMarcus Merriman, Jenny Wormald

      chapter 8|14 pages

      Composite monarchies in early modern Europe

      The British and Irish example
      ByConrad Russell

      chapter 9|23 pages

      Irish, Scottish and Welsh responses to centralisation, c. 1530–c. 1640

      A comparative perspective
      ByNicholas Canny

      chapter 3|23 pages

      Three kingdoms and one commonwealth?

      The enigma of mid-seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland
      ByJohn Morrill

      chapter 11|15 pages

      Varieties of Britishness

      Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the Hanoverian state
      ByS. J. Connolly

      chapter 12|15 pages

      A nation defined by Empire, 1755–1776

      ByP. J. Marshall

      chapter 13|21 pages

      Englishness and Britishness

      National identities, c. 1790–c. 1870
      ByEric Evans

      chapter 14|11 pages

      An imperial and multinational polity

      The ‘scene from the centre’, 1832–1922
      ByKeith Robbins

      chapter 15|22 pages

      Letting go

      The Conservative Party and the end of the Union with Ireland
      ByJohn Turner

      chapter 16|15 pages

      How united is the modern United Kingdom?

      ByDavid Marquand

      chapter 17|11 pages

      Conclusion

      Contingency, identity, sovereignty
      ByJ. G. A. Pocock
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