Uniting the Kingdom? : the making of British history / / edited by Alexander Grant and Keith J. Stringer

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 310 pages)
• Disciplina: 941
• Soggetto topico: Historiography - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Historiography; Great Britain History
• Altri autori: GrantAlexander <1947-> StringerK. J (Keith John)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Uniting the Kingdom
• ISBN: 1-134-79187-9; 1-134-79188-7; 1-280-05731-9; 0-203-43482-X; 0-203-28840-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779811403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II