Britain in the Wider World 1603–1800 Countries in the Early Modern World Series
Auteur : Burnard Trevor
Britain in the Wider World traces the remarkable transformation of Britain between 1603 and 1800 as it developed into a world power.
At the accession of James VI and I to the throne of England in 1603, the kingdoms of England/Wales, Scotland and Ireland were united only by having a monarch in common. They had little presence in the world and were fraught with violence. Two centuries later, the consolidated state of the United Kingdom, established in 1801, was an economic powerhouse and increasingly geopolitically important, with an empire that stretched from the Americas, to Asia and to the Pacific. The book offers a fresh approach to assessing Britain?s evolution, situating Britain within both imperial and Atlantic history, and examining how Britain came together politically and socially throughout the eighteenth century. In particular, it offers a detailed exploration of Britain as a fiscal-military state, able to fight major wars without bankrupting itself. Through studying patterns of political authority and gender relationships, it also stresses the constancy of fundamental features of British society, economy, and politics despite considerable internal changes.
Detailed, accessibly written, and enhanced by illustrations, Britain in the Wider World is ideal for students of early modern Britain.
1. Britain in 1603; 2. Britain Enters the Wider World; 3. British Troubles, 1638-1660; 4. Making Britain, 1660-1707; 5. Ireland; 6. Imperial Britain, 1688-1763; 7. War and Society, 1688-1756; 8. Britain at the Accession of George III, 1760; 9. Global Victory and Imperial Defeat, 1756-1788; 10. The Industrial Revolution; 11. Gender Relations; 12. A New Empire?
Trevor Burnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull. He is editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliographies Online in Atlantic History and the author of Jamaica in the Age of Revolution (2020) and The Atlantic in World History, 1492-1830 (2020).
Date de parution : 01-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 01-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème de Britain in the Wider World :
Mots-clés :
Young Men; England; William III; Scotland; Mid-eighteenth Century Jamaica; Ireland; Conditional Light; Wales; Richard III; social; George III; economic; Charles II’s Coronation; political; Royal African Company’s Monopoly; religion; Great Famine; Catholic; Royal African Company; Protestant; Iron Fist; Thomas Parr; British Atlantic World; English Civil War; James VII; France; Fiscal Military State; James VI; Large Families; James I; British Civil Wars; colonies; Eighteenth Century British State; America; Britain’s European Policy; Africa; British America; Asia; Composite Monarchy; Spain; Irish Protestants; Native Americans; Glorious Revolution; Wars of the Three Kingdoms; Lord North; Charles I; Gender Frontiers; Oliver Cromwell; Benjamin’s Son; William of Orange; Seven Years’ War; Jacobite rebellions; Imperial Britain; Second Hundred Years’ War; American Revolution; Slavery; Industrial Revolution; French Revolution; Napoleonic Wars; British Empire