The Routledge atlas of British history / / Martin Gilbert

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785896603321
• Autore: Gilbert Martin <1936-2015.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2011
• ISBN: 1-135-10872-2; 1-283-60619-4; 9786613918642; 1-135-10873-0; 0-203-07453-X
• Edizione: [5th ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Historical Atlases
• Disciplina: 911/.41
• Soggetti: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; HISTORY / General; Great Britain Historical geography Maps; Great Britain Historical geography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "First edition published as British History Atlas by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1968"--Title page verso.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; The Routledge Atlas of British History; Copyright Page; Preface; Maps; The Celts in Britain by 50 BC; The Roman Conquest 54 BC-l00 AD; Roman Military Government 100AD-400 AD; Civilian Life in Roman Britain; The Pattern of Roman Settlement in Southern England; The Decline of Roman Britain 367AD-517 AD; Early Saxon Settlement 500-626; Saxon Kingdoms and Bretwaldaships 630-829; The Church 700-850; Viking Expansion in Europe 700-941; The Norse and Danish Invasions 793-876; The English Resurgence 876-920; The English Resurgence 920-973; The Danish Empire 1000-1034; Bishoprics and Monasteries1000-1066Harold's Defeat 1066; The Norman Conquest 1066-1072; England Under The Normans1066-1100; Norman Rule 1066-1087; The Norman Conquest of Wales1068-1200; Ireland 1120; Anglo-France 1189; The Church 1100-1300; Stephen and Matilda 1135-1148; England 1200-1300; The Economy 1200-1300; London 1200-1400; Scotland 1295-1402; The Hundred Years' War 1259-1368; The Conquest of Wales 1277-1295; England ; 1300-1400; The Black Death 1333-1369; The Peasants' Revolt 1381; England 1400-1500; Owen Glendower's Revolt 1400-1405; The Defeat of Owen Glendower 1405-1412; The Collapse of English Rule in France 1429-1453The Wars of the Roses: Territorial Divisions 1450; The Wars of the Roses: Castles and Battles 1450-1485; English Trading Companies 1467-1696; Wales 1500-1535; Ireland 1500-1558; The Pattern of Monastic Property 1500-1530; The English Reformation 1531-1571; Scotland 1500-1603; England 1500-1600; Drake and Spain 1577-1585; Leicester's Intervention in the Netherlands 1585-1587; The Armada 1588; Ireland 1553-1603; Ireland 1603-1625; The Caribbean 1562-1717; The Origins of English Settlement in Virginia 1607-1700; The Origins of English Settlement in New England 1620-1700The New World 1642-1713; The Civil War 1642-1643; The Civil War 1644-1646; Cromwell's Wars and Diplomacy 1649-1660; The Atlantic Ocean 1660; The Indian Ocean 1660; The Three Dutch Wars; Monmouth's Rebellion 1685; The Glorious Revolution 1688; Ireland 1649-1651; Ireland 1689-1691; The Jacobite Rising 1715; The Jacobite Rising 1745; The War of the Spanish Succession 1702-1713; The Peace of Utrecht 1713; The British Conquest of Canada 1758-1760; The British Empire 1763; The European Powers in India1510-1775; The Revolt of the American Colonies 1774-1783Agriculture 1700-1800; Industry 1715-1815; Transport 1760-1830; British Expansion in India 1775-1858; The War Against France 1793-1802; The War Against Napoleon1805-1812; The Peninsular War 1808-1814; The Defeat of Napoleon 1812-1815; The War Against the United States1812-1815; The British Empire 1820; Parliamentary Representation before 1832; Parliamentary Reform 1832; Ireland 1789-1861; Ireland 1880-1882; Labour Movements 1819-1910; Famine and Plague in India1866-1919; Railways 1825-1914; Britain in the Far East 1788-1914; Britain and China 1840-1945
• Sommario/riassunto: The evolving story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas, which covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales - and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Britain's overseas empire. This new edition includes: Politics - from the Saxon kingdoms and the collapse of England's French Empire to the Tudors and Stuarts, the English Civil War, the Restoration, Parliamentary Reform, the Commonwealth and Europe, the European Union and the Coalition Government formed in 2010 War and conflict - from Viking attacks and the Norman Invasion to the Armada, two World Wars and the end of empire, the Falklands War, the Gulf War, British forces overseas, terror at home and the wars in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq Trade and industry - from the post-Norman economy and Tudor trade to industrial unrest and the opening of international trade routes, imports and exports, arms sales and British humanitarian aid overseas Religion - from the Saxon Church to the Reformation and the multi-cultural Britain of modern times Society and economics - from civilian life in Roman Britain to the Industrial and Agricultural revolutions, the General Strike and the growth of universities, unemployment, homelessness, charitable activities and government expenditure Immigration - the growth of immigrant communities, the wide range of countries from which immigrants came, citizenship applications and citizenship granted. Sir Martin Gilbert is Winston Churchill's official biographer, and one of Britain's leading historians, having written eighty-two books in total. He is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and a Distinguished Fellow of Hillsdale College, Michigan. He has also most recently served on the committee of the Iraq Inquiry set up by the British Government. For ; more information, please visit www.martingilbert.com.