1st Edition
The Making of the British Isles The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660
Contents
Series editor's preface (2001)
Preface
Introduction: the making of British history
Acknowledgements
The Royal Houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain
Maps
CHAPTER 1: Geography, society and government: the structures of power
CHAPTER 2: Politics, war and diplomacy, 1450-1502
CHAPTER 3: The revival of crown government
CHAPTER 4: Machines built for the battlefield: Renaissance monarchy, 1502-60
CHAPTER 5: The Reformation crisis: the origins of a Protestant state
CHAPTER 6: The Reformation crisis: reform in the parishes
CHAPTER 7: State intervention and the problems of society
CHAPTER 8: The emergence of a British state system, 1560-1584
CHAPTER 9: The testing-time of the Protestant state system, 1584-1603
CHAPTER 10: British multiple monarchy, 1603-37
CHAPTER 11: The destruction and restoration of multiple monarchy, 1637-60
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Professor Steven G. Ellis is Head of the History Department in NUI Galway. His best-known studies are Ireland in the Age of the Tudors (1998) and Tudor Frontiers and Noble Power: the making of the British state (1995).
Dr Christopher Maginn is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University, Nnew York. He has recently authored 'Civilising' Gaelic Leinster: The Extension of Tudor Rule in the O'Byrne and O'Toole Lordships (2004).
