دانلود کتاب The History of Britain and Ireland: Prehistory to Today

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Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Prologue to History: The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland
Chapter 2: Roman Britain: From Bath to the Antonine Wall
Conquest and Colonization
Economy and Society of Roman Britain
Aquae Sulis: Bath as a Window on Roman Britain
Everyday Life in Roman Britain
Religion in Roman Britain
The Frontiers of Roman Britain
The End of Roman Britain
Survivals and Legacy
Chapter 3: Anglo-Saxon England and the Celtic Lands in the Early Middle Ages
St. Patrick and Early Irish Christianity
Angles, Saxons, and Jutes: Migrations and Invasions
The Sutton Hoo Burial Ship and Other Archaeological Finds from the Early Middle Ages
Christian Missions to Britain
Viking Invasions
Viking Settlements
The Church and the Monastic Ideal
The Late Anglo-Saxon Period: War and Changing Political Realities
Chapter 4: Conquest, Colonization, and Culture: The High Middle Ages
The Norman Conquest of England
The Anglo-Norman Conquest of Ireland
Kingship and Medieval Political Culture in Scotland and Wales
English Political Culture, 1100–1273
Edward I and the Conquest of Wales
The Scottish Wars of Independence
Literary and Cultural Developments in the High Middle Ages
Social Developments in the High Middle Ages
Chapter 5: Plague, Politics, and Power: The Later Middle Ages from the Black Death to the Wars of the Roses
The Hundred Years’ War and Its Effects on Political Culture
The Black Death and Social Change in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
John Wycliffe: New Ideas about the Relationship between Church and State
Langland, Chaucer, and the Emergence of English Literature
Literature and Culture in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland
Scottish Political Culture in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and the Renewed Quest for Welsh Independence
The Statute of Drogheda and Ireland in the Late Middle Ages
Dynastic Issues in England, Scotland, and Wales in the Fifteenth Century
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Religion, Warfare, and Dynastic Politics: The Tudors and the Stewarts in the Sixteenth Century
Religion and Politics in the Sixteenth Century: The English Reformation
Social Mobility and Social Change in the Sixteenth Century
Religion and Politics in the Sixteenth Century: The Scottish Reformation
Religion and Politics in the Sixteenth Century: The Reformation in Ireland and Wales
The Reformations in the British Isles in European Context
The Rise and Fall of Mary Queen of Scots
“I Have the Heart and Stomach of a King”: Queen Elizabeth I
Chapter 7: From Stewart to Stuart: Political Culture, the Monarchy, and the Three Kingdoms, 1603–42
Shakespeare and History
Social Mobility and Social Change in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
The Union of the Crowns in James VI and I
Foreign Policy and the Thirty Years’ War: The European Context for James’s Reign
Scotland, Ireland, and Wales under James and Charles
John Donne and the Literary and Intellectual Culture of the Early Seventeenth Century
The Personal Rule of Charles I: The Political Culture of the 1630s
The Origins of the British Civil Wars
Chapter 8: Civil Wars, Interregnum, and Restoration: From Edgehill to the Battle of the Boyne
Civil Wars: Divided Societies
The Fall of the Monarchy and the Interregnum
The Restoration in Britain and Ireland
The Political Culture of the 1670s and 1680s
The Revolution of 1688
Changes in Thought and Society
Conclusion
Chapter 9: The Struggle for Stability: Britain and Ireland in the Aftermath of the Revolutions of the Seventeenth Century, 1690–1746
The English Bill of Rights and the Revolution Settlement in Britain and Ireland
Marlborough’s War: The War of the Spanish Succession
The Act of Union, the Hanoverian Succession, and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715
The Press, Public Opinion, and Politics in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, and the Battle of Culloden
Literature, Morality, and Religion in the Early Eighteenth Century
Chapter 10: Reform, War, and Rebellion: Political Culture in Britain and Ireland, 1746–89
Threats to the Whig Oligarchy
The Seven Years’ War and the American Crisis
Ireland and the American Revolution
The Industrial Revolution in England, Wales, and Scotland
The Relationship between Philosophy and Society
Religion, Morality, and the Enlightenment
Chapter 11: The French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and their Aftermath, 1789–1832
The Impact of the French Revolution on Britain and Ireland
The Irish Rebellion of 1798 and the Act of Union
The Napoleonic Wars
Attitudes toward Empire
The Highland Clearances and Scotland in the Early Nineteenth Century
British and Irish Political Culture, 1815–32
Responses to Industrialization and Social Change in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Chapter 12: Britain, Ireland, and India, c. 1830–50: Railroads, Reform, and the Response to Change, Cholera, and Catastrophe
The Coming of the Railroad and the Next Stage of the Industrial Revolution
Political Change from the First Great Reform Act to the Repeal of the Corn Laws: 1832–50
Britain and India
The Cholera Epidemic and Nineteenth-Century Medicine
Charles Dickens and Mid-Nineteenth Century Literary Responses to Industrial Society
Ireland: Famine, Migration, and Irish Nationalism
The Crimean War: Britain and Europe
Chapter 13: The Later Victorian Era: Britain, Ireland, and Empire, c. 1860–90
Victorian Values and Social Change
British-American Relations in the Nineteenth Century
The Imperial Idea: Changing Attitudes toward Empire
Britain and the New Imperialism: The Race for Colonies in Africa
The Literature of Empire
Scotland, Wales, and the Empire
The Impact of Imperialism on Ireland
Parnell, Gladstone, and Home Rule for Ireland
The Foundations of the British Commonwealth
Chapter 14: In the Shadow of the Great War, c. 1890–1918
Political Culture and the Threat to Stability in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Cultural Revivals and Survivals
The World of Yesterday: Life in the British Isles at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
The UK, Europe, and the Origins of the First World War
Britain’s Entry into the First World War and the Response in Britain, Ireland, and the Empire
The Great War
The Easter Rising 1916
The Literary Response to the First World War
Social Change and the Psychological Legacy of the First World War
Chapter 15: The Interwar Years
British Political Culture in the Interwar Years
Ireland: Home Rule and Partition
Scotland in the Interwar Years
Wales in the Interwar Years
Changes in Society
Interwar Thought and Literature: Troubled Minds
International Relations in the Interwar Years: The Background to the Second World War
Chapter 16: The Second World War
The Outbreak of the Second World War
The Phony War
The Fall of Chamberlain and the Ascent of Churchill
The War against Germany
The War against Japan
The Home Front
Ireland
The Social Consequences of the War
Chapter 17: The Postwar Period, 1945–73: Social Change and the End of Empire
The Labour Party and the Rise of the Welfare State
The Cold War
Ireland: The Significance of 1949 and the Continuation of Partition
Questions of Identity: England, Scotland, and Wales
The End of Empire and the Suez Crisis
Postwar Prosperity, Angry Young Men, and Disillusion with Postwar Society
Liverpool, the Beatles, and the Swinging Sixties
The Political Culture of the 1960s and Early 1970s
Chapter 18: Demands, Disappointments, Hopes, and Promises, c. 1973–2000
The UK, the Republic of Ireland, and the European Common Market
Troubles in Britain: The Energy Crisis, Economic Decline, and the End of the 1970s
The Troubles in Northern Ireland
Privatization and Political Culture under Margaret Thatcher
Tony Blair and the Reinvention of the Labour Party: The Political Culture of the 1990s
The Movement toward Devolution in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
Life and Politics in the Republic of Ireland
Chapter 19: Britain and Ireland in the Twenty-First Century
The Iraq War and the Decline of Tony Blair
The End of the Troubles in Northern Ireland? Northern Ireland before Brexit
The End of the Celtic Tiger and Lessons from Ireland
Brexit
The Covid-19 Pandemic
The Decline of Traditional Politics and the Culture Wars
Scotland and Wales in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Index