Britain and Ireland recounts the history of the two states – the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (Éire) – and four nations – the Irish, the Welsh, the Scottish and the English – from prehistory to the present.
Chapters are organised chronologically starting in 4000 BCE, coming through the Roman occupation, the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and the formation of the British Empire. Coming up to the present day, this new edition has expanded material on post-1800 Irish history, with particular emphasis on the Famine, Home Rule, the Irish Civil War, partition, the Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement and the Brexit fallout. Later chapters also have increased emphasis on national developments including Thatcherism, Blairism, monarchy, austerity, devolution, the Scottish referendum and international relations with the US, Europe and the Commonwealth, ending with the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and climate change.
Accompanied by illustrations and information boxes, and with an increased selection of documents with questions to challenge students of British and Irish studies, the book presents not only the story of what happened in the British Isles, but its interdependence with Europe and the rest of the world.
Author(s): Jürgen Kramer
Edition: 2
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 306
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Britons, Celts and Romans, C.4000 Bc– 410 CE
Prehistoric Europe and the British Isles
The Romans in Britain: Invasion, Conquest, Settlement
Conquest, Resistance, Administration
Economy, Society, Culture
2 Saxons, Danes and Normans, 410–1154
Angles, Jutes and Saxons
Migrants, Invaders, Settlers
Christianity
Kingship
The Scandinavians
The Normans
Lords, Vassals, Serfs
Repercussions, at Home and Abroad
Oral Cultures – Recordings of the Past – ‘Literary’ Beginnings
3 Late-Medieval Struggles: Within the British Isles and On the Continent, 1154–1485
Political Struggles in the Isles, 1154–1272
Political Struggles On the Continent and in the Holy Land
Political Struggles in the Isles, 1272–1485
The Hundred Years War, 1328–1453
Medieval Changes in Agriculture
The Black Death
Society and Culture
4 Renaissance – Reconnaissance – Reformation – Revolution, 1485–1688/89
The Protestant Reformations
State and Society Under the Tudors
The Tudor Monarchs
The Periphery
The Social Order
The Economy
International Relations, 1485–1603
State and Society, 1603–1689
An Unstable Union
The War(s) of the Three Kingdoms
Interregnum? Commonwealth? Republic? Protectorate?
The Restoration
The Crisis of 1688 and Its Solution
International Relations, 1603–1689
Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Astronomy, Philosophy, Institutions of Learning
Witch Hunts
Literature
5 Towards Internal Stability and External Expansion, 1689–1789
From Union to Union
The Union of 1707
The Union of 1801
Eighteenth-century Society
The Enlightenment
The Philosophes and Their Ideas
Political Thought and Practice
The British Experience
Literary Culture
The Transatlantic Economy
The Slave Trade
Britain, Europe and the World
European and Global Rivalries
Political Corruption
Colonial Rebellion: the Thirteen Colonies
6 Political Reforms, Industrial Revolution, Imperial Rule, 1789–1914
European Perspectives
The Revolution in France and the Reconstruction of Europe’s Political Order
Industrialisation
Colonialism – Imperialism
The Right to Vote
Culture and Ideology
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The Industrial Revolution
Political Reform
The Monarchy
Gender Relations
Famines
Ireland: Catholic Emancipation – Repeal – Home Rule
Cultures and Ideologies
The British Empire
Colonial Relationships, Modes of Imperial Control, ‘Race’, and Colonial Resistance
7 The Twentieth Century Devastation and Decline, Reconstruction and Reorientation, 1914–1999
Wartime Devastations and Peacetime Difficulties
The Great War
The Interwar Years
The Second World War
The Postwar Years
Reconstruction and Its Limits
The Economy
Society
Media
Empire, Commonwealth and Decolonisation
The Dominions
India
The Middle East and the Suez Crisis
Africa, the Caribbean, the Falklands and Hong Kong
Devolution
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
England
The Isles in Europe
8 The Twenty-First Century Challenges and Perspectives
Terrorism, Domestic and International
The Financial Crash, 2007–2012
The COVID-19 Pandemic
Climate Change
The British Monarchy
Brexit
Strengthening and Enriching Democracy: the Idea of Citizens’ Assemblies
Documents
1 Britons, Celts and Romans, C.4000 BCE–410 CE
1 Civilisation Or Servitude?
2 Saxons, Danes and Normans, 410–1154
2 The Code of Edmund
3 William’s Reign
3 Late-Medieval Struggles: Within the British Isles and On the Continent, 1154–1485
4 Eleventh-Century English Agrarian Society: Rights and Ranks of People
Thegn’s Law
Cottar’s Right
Boor’s Right
5 Land and People
Of the Ordering of the City
6 Magna Carta (1225)
4 Renaissance – Reconnaissance – Reformation – Revolution, 1485–1688/89
7 Francesco Petrarch: A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism (1362)
8 Johann Tetzel, The Spark for the Reformation: Indulgences
9 Martin Luther: Justification By Faith
10 Martin Luther: Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)
11 An Act for the King’s Highness to Be Supreme Head of the Church of England, and to Have Authority to Reform and Redress All Errors, Heresies, and Abuses in the Same, 1534
12 Tyrone’s Demands
13 An Exhortation Concerning Good Order, and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates
14 James I: Speech to Parliament (1610)
15 Anthony Van Dyck: Charles I On Horseback (1633)
16 Plantation of Ulster
17 The Nineteen Propositions
18 The Execution
19 Bill of Rights, 1689: An Act of Declaiming the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown
20 Sir Isaac Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Rule I
Rule II
Rule III
Rule IV
5 Towards Internal Stability and External Expansion, 1689–1789
21 James Thomson: ‘Rule, Britannia!’
22 Act of Settlement, 1701: An Act for the Further Limitation of the Crown and Better Securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject
23 The United Irishmen
24 Habeas Corpus Act, 1679: An Act for the Better Securing the Liberty of the Subject and for Prevention of Imprisonments Beyond the Seas
25 Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
26 Coffee House
27 William Blake: ‘Europe Supported By Africa and America’
28 The Plan of the Brookes
29 Edmund Burke: Conciliation With America (1775)
30 George III: Speech From the Throne (October 1775)
31 Thomas Paine: Common Sense
6 Political Reforms, Industrial Revolution, Imperial Rule, 1789–1914
32 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (26 August 1789)
33 Edmund Burke: Reflections On the Revolution in France (1790)
34 Thomas Paine: Rights of Man (1791–92)
35 Address of the London Corresponding Society, 19 November 1792
36 Exchanging Goods/commodities, Using Money, and the Uses of Capital
37 Robert Owen: Observations On the Effect of the Manufacturing System (1815)
38 Samuel Smiles: Self-Help (1859)
39 Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘England in 1819’
40 ‘Land of Hope and Glory’
41 Walter Bagehot: The English Monarchy
42 Harriet Taylor: ‘Enfranchisement of Women’ (1851)
43 ‘Why Women Want the Vote’, a Pamphlet Issued By the Women’s Social and Political Union (1903)
44 Dublin, 23 January 1847
45 Workhouses
46 A Land Agent’s Perspective
47 Isaac Butt: For Irish Affairs an Irish Parliament (1874)
48 The Case for Ulster
49 The Case Against Ulster
7 The Twentieth Century: Devastation and Decline, Reconstruction and Reorientation, 1914–1999
50 Herbert Henry Asquith: Justification of War (1914)
51 Bertrand Russell: Reflections On Pacifism in Wartime (1914–1918)
52 William Beveridge: Social Insurance and Allied Services
53 Statute of Westminster (1931)
54 Clement Attlee: The End of British Rule in India (1947)
55 Winston Churchill: A Protest Against Britain’s ‘Shameful Flight’ From India (1947)
56 The Agreement
Chronology
Glossary
A Guide to Further Reading
Index
