The British Problem, c. 1534-1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago

Bradshaw; Brendan; Morrill, John

ISBN 10: 0312160429 / ISBN 13: 9780312160425

Verlag: St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1996

Beschreibung

Quarto. Hardcover. Boards bound in black cloth with jacket. 334 pages ; 23 cm. This pioneering book seeks to transcend the limitations of separate English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh histories by taking the archipelago made up of the islands of Britain and Ireland as a single unit of study. This is a story of the creation of a British state system if not a British state, with the incorporation of Wales into the English state, the creation of a kingdom of Ireland dependent on the English Crown and of a confederation of the Scottish and English crowns; and it is the story of how the various peoples of the archipelago interacted and became different peoples as a result of that interaction. VG+.Lightest amount of shelfwear. Close to new.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 203593

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The British Problem, c. 1534-1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago
• Verlag: St. Martin's Press, New York, NY
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0312160429
• ISBN-13: 9780312160425
• Einband: Hardcover
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • History

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Inhaltsangabe

This pioneering book seeks to transcend the limitations of separate English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh histories by taking the archipelago made up of the islands of Britain and Ireland as a single unit of study. This is a story of the creation of a British state system if not a British state, with the incorporation of Wales into the English state, the creation of a kingdom of Ireland dependent on the English Crown and of a confederation of the Scottish and English crowns; and it is the story of how the various peoples of the archipelago interacted and became different peoples as a result of that interaction.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brendan Bradshaw, a University Lecturer in History and a Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, has published extensively on Irish history and on British and European continental history, mainly of the sixteenth century.

John Morrill, Reader in Early Modern History and Fellow and Vice Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, has published widely on British and Irish history, mainly of the seventeenth century. He and Breandan Bradshaw have taught a final-year course called 'The British Problem, 1534-1707' in Cambridge since 1988.