The British problem, c. 1534-1707 : state formation in the Atlantic Archipelago
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The British problem, c. 1534-1707 : state formation in the Atlantic Archipelago
(Problems in focus series)
Macmillan, 1996
- : pbk
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British problem, circa 1534-1707
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Note
Bibliography: p. 262-318
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. There has been little attempt hitherto to study the history of the 'Atlantic archipelago' as a coherent entity, even for the period during which there was a single ruler of both Great Britain and Ireland. This book begins with the onset of the intellectual, religious, political, cultural and dynastic developments that were to bring teh Scottish house of Stewart to the thrones of England (incorporating the ancient principality of Wales), Ireland, (a kingdom created in 1541 as a dependency of the English Crown) and to full control of Scotland itself and of its islands.
This is then a story of the creation of a British state system if not a British state. but the book is also a study of how the peoples of the archipelago interacted - as a result of internal migration, military conquest, protestant and Tridentine CAtholic evangelism - and how they were changed as a result. Ten distinguished historians representing the seperate peoples of the islands of Britain and Ireland, and teaching histort in Britain, Ireland and the USA, offer provocative and challenging new approaches to how and why we need to develop the history of each component of the archipelago in the context of the whole and to make 'the British Problem' central to that study.
Table of Contents
- Preface.- The British Problem 1534-1707
- J.Morrill.- The Tudor Reformation and Revolution in Wales and Ireland: the Origins of the British Problem
- B.Bradshaw.- British Policies before the British State
- H.Morgan.-England's Defence and Ireland's Reform: The Dilemma of the Irish Viceroys, 1541-1641
- C.Brady.- The English Crown, the Principality of Wales and the Council in the Marches, 1534-1641
- P.Roberts.- James VI, James I and the Identity of Britain
- J.Wormald.- The Atlantic Archipelago and the War of the Three Kingdoms
- J.G.A.Pocock.- The English Republic and the Meaning of Britain
- D.Hirst.- Divergence and Union: Scotland and England, 1660-1707
- M.Goldie.- The Communities of Ireland and the British State, 1660-1707
- J.Smyth.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.
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