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1 online resource (x, 310 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / P.K. O'Brien -- Introduction : the enigma of British history / Alexander Grant and Keith Stringer -- British history as a 'new subject' : politics, perspectives and prospects / David Cannadine -- The United Kingdom of England : the Anglo-Saxon achievement / James Campbell Foundations of a disunited kingdom / John GIllingham -- Overlordship and reaction, c.1200-c.1450 / Robin Frame -- Scottish foundations : thirteenth-century perspectives / Keith Stringer ; Late medieval contributions / Alexander Grant -- The high road from Scotland : Stewarts and Tudors in the mid-sixteenth century / Marcus Merriman ; One king, two kingdoms / Jenny Wormald -- Composite monarchies in early modern Europe : the British and Irish example / Conrad Russell -- Irish, Scottish and Welsh responses to centralisation, c.1530-c.1640 : a comparative perspective / Nicholas Canny -- Three kingdoms and one commonwealth? : the enigma on mid-seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland / John Morrill. |
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Varieties of Britishness : Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the Hanoverian state / S.J. Connolly -- A nation defined by Empire, 1755-1776 / P.J. Marshall -- Englishness and Britishness : national identities, c.1790-c.1870 / Eric Evans -- An imperial and multinational polity : the 'scene from the centre', 1832-1922 / Keith Robbins -- Letting go : the Conservative Party and the end of the union with Ireland / John Turner -- How united is the modern United Kingdom / David Marquand -- Conclusion : contingency, identity, sovereignty / J.G.A. Pocock. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Historiography.
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Great Britain. |
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Historiography. |
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Great Britain -- History.
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History. |
| Indexed Term |
Great Britain History |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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Congressen (vorm)
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Grant, Alexander, 1947-
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Stringer, K. J. (Keith John)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Uniting the Kingdom?. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 0415130417 (DLC) 95034971 (OCoLC)32925976 |
| ISBN |
0203288408 (electronic book) |
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9780203288405 (electronic book) |
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020343482X (electronic book) |
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9780203434826 (electronic book) |
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9780415130417 (hardback) |
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0415130417 (hardback) |
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0415130417 (Cloth) |
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