The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660

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ISBN: 9780582040038 | 0582040035
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Copyright: 8/16/2007

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This complete overview of the interaction between England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales shows how each country's sense of national identity was shaped by the politics of state formation. Gives equal significance to all regions within Britain instead of the traditional focus on EnglandFeatures a controversial argument that national identities in Scotland, Ireland and Wales arose because England wasn't focused enough on integrating them into ‘Britain' in this periodWill be used as a core text on courses about Early Modern Britain

Series editor's preface (2001)	p. viii
Preface	p. xii
Introduction: the making of British history	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
The Royal Houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain	p. xxii
Maps	p. xxv
Geography, society and government: the structures of power	p. 1
State formation: unions and conquests	p. 1
Geography, power and society	p. 7
Frontiers and defence	p. 12
Military forces and the border surnames	p. 17
Nation, culture and identity	p. 23
Politics, war and diplomacy, 1450-1502	p. 27
English defeat, Scottish monarchy and Gaelic revival	p. 28
Centre and periphery in the Wars of the Roses	p. 39
The Scottish monarchy and Anglo-Scottish relations	p. 50
The revival of crown government	p. 55
Restoring royal finances	p. 59
English provincial administration	p. 66
The rule of the English marches	p. 70
Royal government in Scotland: an alternative approach	p. 79
Machines built for the battlefield: Renaissance monarchy, 1502-60	p. 83
War, taxation and the rise of Wolsey	p. 85
Tudor reform, rebellion and the royal divorce	p. 94
Anglo-Scottish relations and the renewal of war	p. 107
'The monstrous regiment of women'	p. 115
The Reformation crisis: the origins of a Protestant state	p. 121
The Henrician Reformation	p. 123
Reform and reaction: the Tudor church militant	p. 129
The Elizabethan settlement	p. 134
Scotland: an alternative pattern of reform	p. 139
The Reformation crisis: reform in the parishes	p. 148
'The polities of the best reformed kirks': Scotland	p. 148
Change and continuity in the Tudor church	p. 156
Enforcing the Elizabethan settlement: the opening phase	p. 161
Poverty and the Word in the pastoral uplands	p. 166
Tarrying for the magistrate	p. 170
The Catholic threat	p. 175
The Puritan threat	p. 177
State intervention and the problems of society	p. 183
Population trends and 'the just price'	p. 183
Riot and rebellion	p. 191
Regulating the economy	p. 197
The poor law	p. 205
Inhibiting vagrancy	p. 210
The emergence of a British state system, 1560-84	p. 215
Centre and periphery under Elizabeth	p. 217
Elizabethan finance	p. 222
Royal marriages, the Tudor succession and Scottish civil war	p. 225
Mary, the Norfolk marriage scheme, and rebellion	p. 233
Anglo-Scottish relations, frontier defence and Catholic intrigues	p. 241
The testing-time of the Protestant state system, 1584-1603	p. 254
England's long war with Spain	p. 255
The reassertion of royal authority in Scotland	p. 265
The struggle for Britain and Ireland's Gaelic district	p. 271
The last years of the last Tudor	p. 285
British multiple monarchy, 1603-37	p. 289
James VI and I's perfect union	p. 290
King James and his Gaelic subjects	p. 295
Religious 'congruity' and fiscal crisis	p. 298
Faction, favourites and the drift towards war	p. 302
Finance and religion: Charles I's war and his English kingdom	p. 306
Charles I's interventions in Ireland and Scotland: a pattern established	p. 315
English constitutional opposition	p. 323
Authoritarian rule in three kingdoms	p. 326
The destruction and restoration of multiple monarchy, 1637-60	p. 333
Challenge to authoritarian rule: the Scottish National Covenant	p. 335
The wars of the Stuart kingdoms	p. 339
Commonwealth vs. multiple monarchy	p. 358
Cromwell's Commonwealth	p. 362
The collapse of republican government	p. 369
Conclusion	p. 372
Bibliography	p. 379
Index	p. 401
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The Making of the British Isles: The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660

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