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 9|23 pages
Irish, Scottish and Welsh responses to centralisation, c. 1530–c. 1640
A comparative perspective
chapter 3|23 pages
Three kingdoms and one commonwealth?
The enigma of mid-seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland
