The British Isles : a history of four nations
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The British Isles : a history of four nations
Cambridge University Press, 1995
Canto ed
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Bibliography: p. 288-304
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a unique account of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the twentieth century, distinguished by its stress on the fact that English history forms only part of a wider 'history of four nations.' To ignore this wider dimension is to distort our view of the past and hinder our understanding of the present. Wide-ranging, the book transforms and challenges traditional accounts of what constitutes national history.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Celtic societies of the British isles
- 2. The impact of Rome on the British isles
- 3. The post-Roman centuries
- 4. The Vikings and the fall of the Old Order
- 5. The Norman ascendancy
- 6. The decline of the Norman-French empire
- 7. The making of an English empire
- 8. The remaking of an empire
- 9. The Britannic melting pot
- 10. The rise of ethnic politics
- 11. Between the wars
- 12. Withdrawal from Empire
- Conclusion
- Selected reading list
- Index.
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