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Overview
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.
Synopsis
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.
Booknews
Responding to the series' central thesis of locating and devolving an historical problem, the ten contributing scholars argue for a cohesive, unified approach to the study of the British state during the period. The essays represent English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh histories by taking the archipelago centered on the island of Britain and Ireland as a single unit of study, considering the interaction of its peoples as a result of migration, military conquest, and protestant and Tridentine Catholic evangelism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Editorials
From the Publisher
'...the essays in this volume...open up and develop their topics in stimulating and often original ways. They are held together by an impressive introduction from John Morrill, who provides a narrative framework to the whole.' - Henry Williams, Welsh History Review
'Much that is stimulatingly contentious but all is excellent. This work not merely reinterprets British history in terms of the past interactions between four nations, but could have a real impact on how we think of the present crises of British identity, Britain and Europe and relations between England, Ireland and Scotland.' - Professor Bernard Crick