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List of contents
Introduction: The New British History
Glenn Burgess
Part 1: British History
1. Achievement and Prospect: Regal Union for Britain, 1603-38
Allan I. Macinnes
2. The War(s) of the Three Kingdoms
John Morril
3. Restoration and Revolution, 1660-90
Clare Jackson
4. ‘British’ History in the Post-Revolutionary World, 1690-1715
Tony Claydon
5. Patterns of British Identity: ‘Britain’ and its Rivals in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Arthur Williamson
6. Is a British Socio-Economic History Possible?
Ian Whyte
Part 2: Assessments
7. British and Irish History
T.C. Bernard
8. Seducing the Scottish Clio: Has Scottish History Anything to Fear from the New British History?
Keith M. Brown
9. Critical Perspectives: The Autonomy of English History
Tim Harris
10. Britain or Europe? The Context of Early Modern English History
John Reeves
About the author
Glenn Burgess is Professor of History at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of The Politics of the Ancient Constitution: An Introduction to English Political Thought 1603-1642 (1992); Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution (1996); British Political Thought 1500-1660 (2009); and many articles, essays and edited collections.
Summary
Through a series of chronological essays surveying the important period of 1500 to 1707, The New British History explores new perspectives on the Atlantic Archipelago.
Created and developed by Thomas Cromwell during the reign of Henry VIII and remaining until the Act of Union in 1707, the Atlantic Archipelago encompassed the interacting powers of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This volume, supplemented by a detailed historiographical introduction by Glenn Burgess, contains a range of thematic essays exploring concepts of British national identity and whether a 'British' approach to the history can be extended to social and economic history.
Foreword
Explores the history of the 'Atlantic Archipelago' from Tudor Britain to the Act of Union, 1707.
