The British Problem c.1534-1707: State Formation in the Atlantic Archipelago: 24 (Problems in Focus) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333592468 ISBN 13: 9780333592465

Publisher: Palgrave, 1996

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. 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.

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About the Authors

BRENDAN BRADSHAW is a University Lecturer in History and a Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, UK.

John Morrill is Professor of British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge and was Fellow and Vice Master and Acting Master of Selwyn College Cambridge. He has written and edited 26 books and over 100 articles, mainly on British and Irish History in the period 1500-1800. He is one of the leading authorities on Oliver Cromwell and in 2023 he completed editing a four-volume edition of all his recorded words.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333592468
• ISBN 13: 9780333592465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Bradshaw Brendan