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Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: GE.EG FS.E Worl / College 2d - Geschichte / Sammlung Duffek	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

VERLAGSTEXT: / / Scholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have generated unprecedented intellectual activity. Nor has the world stood still: the collapse of communism, the issue of integration into the EU, and the advance of multiculturalism have led more and more people in the English speaking world as a whole to sense that their collective landscape now looks profoundly different from that inhabited by their ancestors even a few decades ago. In A World By Itself , six distinguished historians offer the most definitive and compelling history of the British Isles to date. Tracing the political, religious and material cultures from the Romans to the present day, this is at once an urgent reassessment of our shared past, and an inspirational celebration of British history. It focuses on the major themes and most dramatic moments of the last two millennia: the rise and fall of empires; reformation, revolution and restoration; wars both civil and global; and the enduring question of what it means to be British. (Quelle: The British Library) / / AUS DEM INHALT: / / Acknowledgements / p. xvii / Note on Contributors / p. xix / Illustrations / p. xxi / Editor's Introduction / p. xxiii / Part I / The Romans to the Norman Conquest, 500 BC-AD 1066 James Campbell / / Introduction / p. 3 / 1 / Material Cultures / p. 4 / 2 / Religious Cultures / p. 35 / 3 / Political Cultures / p. 69 / 4 / Some Counter-Factuals / p. 104 / Part II / Conquests, Catastrophe and Recovery, 1066-c. 1485 John Gillingham / / Introduction / p. 111 / 1 / Material Cultures / p. 112 / 2 / Religious and Secular Cultures / p. 146 / 3 / Political and National Cultures / p. 175 / 4 / Some Counter-Factuals / p. 218 / Part III / Reformations, Unions and Civil Wars, 1485-1660 Jenny Wormald / / / Introduction / p. 223 / 1 / Material Cultures / p. 224 / 2 / Politics and Religion in the Sixteenth Century / p. 245 / 3 / Politics and Religion in the Seventeenth Century / p. 298 / 4 / Some Counter-Factuals / p. 327 / Part IV / Restoration to Reform, 1660-1832 Jonathan Clark / / Introduction / p. 333 / 1 / Material Cultures / p. 335 / 2 / Religious Cultures / p. 370 / 3 / Political and National Cultures / p. 391 / 4 / Some Counter-Factuals / p. 443 / Part V / The World Hegemon: The Long Nineteenth Century, 1832-1914 William D. Rubinstein / / Introduction / p. 451 / 1 / Material Cultures / p. 452 / 2 / Religion, Nationalism and Identity / p. 484 / 3 / Political Cultures / p. 522 / 4 / Some Counter-Factuals / p. 555 / Part VI / Twentieth-Century Britain: A Success Story? Robert Skidelsky / / Introduction / p. 569 / 1 / Material Cultures / p. 575 / 2 / Culture and Society / p. 587 / 3 / Political and National Cultures / p. 608 / 4 / Some Counter-Factuals / Afterword / Guide to Further Reading / Index