A history of the British Isles / Jeremy Black

By: Black, Jeremy, 1955-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1996 Description: xxxi, 331 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN: 0312160631; 9780312160630; 0333662814Subject(s): Great Britain -- History | Ireland -- HistoryDDC classification: 941 LOC classification: DA30 | B6 1996Online resources: WorldCat details | E-book Fulltext

Contents:

TOC 1. Pre-Roman and Roman Britain -- 2. Saxons, Vikings and Celts, AD 400-1066 -- 3. The Middle Ages -- 4. The Sixteenth Century -- 5. 1603-88 -- 6. 1689-1815 -- 7. Age of Reform and Empire, 1815-1914 -- 8. The Twentieth Century, 1914-96 -- 9. The British Isles Today.

Summary: Summary: "From the earliest pre-history to the 1990s this stirring account describes the astonishingly varied stages through which the British Isles have passed to achieve their present identity." "Just as the islands have populated and ruled so much of the rest of the world, so they have been settled themselves by many invaders, all of whom have left their mark - from Romans to Saxons, from Vikings to Normans - creating an immensely rich historical inheritance." "Perhaps most dynamic of all has always been the relationship between the four principal peoples of the islands: Scots, Irish, English and Welsh." "A History of the British Isles is not (unlike most other accounts) really just a history of England. Proper weight is given to all four, often fractious, components of the British Isles, giving the reader an admirably balanced and absorbing account - political, social, economic and cultural - of an extraordinary shared history."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
E-Book	EWU Library E-book	Non-fiction	941 BLH 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Not for loan
Text	EWU Library Reserve Section	Non-fiction	941 BLH 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		16559

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Published in the United States of America by St. Martin's Press

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-331)

TOC 1. Pre-Roman and Roman Britain --
2. Saxons, Vikings and Celts, AD 400-1066 --
3. The Middle Ages --
4. The Sixteenth Century --
5. 1603-88 --
6. 1689-1815 --
7. Age of Reform and Empire, 1815-1914 --
8. The Twentieth Century, 1914-96 --
9. The British Isles Today.

Summary:
"From the earliest pre-history to the 1990s this stirring account describes the astonishingly varied stages through which the British Isles have passed to achieve their present identity." "Just as the islands have populated and ruled so much of the rest of the world, so they have been settled themselves by many invaders, all of whom have left their mark - from Romans to Saxons, from Vikings to Normans - creating an immensely rich historical inheritance." "Perhaps most dynamic of all has always been the relationship between the four principal peoples of the islands: Scots, Irish, English and Welsh." "A History of the British Isles is not (unlike most other accounts) really just a history of England. Proper weight is given to all four, often fractious, components of the British Isles, giving the reader an admirably balanced and absorbing account - political, social, economic and cultural - of an extraordinary shared history."--BOOK JACKET.

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