A history of the British Isles : prehistory to the present

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Auteur principal : Campbell Kenneth L. (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : A history of the British Isles : prehistory to the present / Kenneth L. Campbell
Publié : London [etc.] : Bloomsbury Academic , 2017
Description matérielle : 1 volume (viii-468 pages)
Sujets :
  • 1. Prologue to history: the prehistory of the British Isles
  • 2. Roman Britain: from Bath to the Antonine Wall
  • 3. Anglo-Saxon England and the Celtic lands in the early Middle Ages
  • 4. Conquest, colonization, and culture: the High Middle Ages from 1066 to 1348
  • 5. Plague, politics, and power: the Later Middle Ages from the Black Death to the Wars of the Roses
  • 6. Religion, warfare, and dynastic politics: the Tudors and the Stewarts in the sixteenth century
  • 7. From Stewart to Stuart: the monarchy and the three kingdoms, 1603 -1642
  • 8. Civil wars, Interregnum and Restoration: from Edgehilll to the Battle of the Boyne
  • 9. The British Isles in the first half of the eighteenth century: form the Bill of Rights to the Battle of Culloden
  • 10. Reform, war, and rebellion: political culture in Britain and Ireland, 1746-1789
  • 11. The French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and their aftermath, 1789-1832
  • 12. The Victorian period: politics, society, and culture in the nineteenth century
  • 13. Britain's moment as a world power: the British Empire in the nineteenth century
  • 14. In the shadow of the Great War, c. 1890-1918
  • 15. The interwar years
  • 16. The Second World War
  • 17. The post-war period, 1945 to 1973: social change and the end of empire
  • 18. Demands, disappointments, hopes, and promises: c. 1973-2004
  • 19. The British Isles in the twenty-first century