The Peoples of the British Isles: A New History. From 1688 to 1914 [Paperback]

The new edition of The Peoples of the British Isles presents the history of the peoples of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from prehistoric times to the present. Through the frameworks of cultural, intellectual, and social history, the authors examine the conflicts and commonalities among the people of these four nations. The book focuses throughout on the lives of real people-how they made a living, how they organized their society and institutions, how they related to each other, and how they understood themselves and their world. This volume covers the period following the Revolution of 1688 through the build up to the First World War.The new edition of The Peoples of the British Isles presents the history of the peoples of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from prehistoric times to the present. Through the frameworks of cultural, intellectual, and social history, the authors examine the conflicts and commonalities among the people of these four nations. The book focuses throughout on the lives of real people-how they made a living, how they organized their society and institutions, how they related to each other, and how they understood themselves and their world.This volume covers the period following the Revolution of 1688 through the build up to the First World War. Beginning with the formation of the British nation-state, Heyck and Veldman follow the spread of English cultural influence and power to the Celtic peoples and beyondPart I The Age of the Landed Oligarchy, 1688-17631 The Lands and Peoples of the British lsles at the End of the Seventeenth Century2The Revolution of 1688 and the Revolution Settlement3 Society and Economy in Eighteenth-Century England4 Political Structure and Politics in Augustan England5 Religion, Rationality, and Recreation: Culture in Eighteenth-Century England6 Scotland in the Eighteenth Century7 The Expansion of British Power and Empire, 1715-1763Part II The Age of Revolutions, 1763-18158 The Crisis of Empire, 1763-178lÃ%