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Cover 1 Title 3 Copyright 4 Dedication 5 Contents 7 List of illustrations 8 List of maps 11 Preface to the first edition 13 Preface to the second edition 15 Map: the British Isles 18 Introduction 19 1 The Celtic societies of the British Isles 31 2 The impact of Rome on the British Isles 45 3 The post-Roman centuries 59 4 The Vikings and the fall of the Old Order 78 5 The Norman and post-Norman ascendancy 110 6 The decline of the post-Norman empire 150 7 The making of an English empire 175 8 The remaking of an empire 207 9 The Britannic melting pot 237 10 The rise of ethnic politics 269 11 Between the wars 298 12 Withdrawal from empire 312 13 Post-Imperial Britain: Post-Nationalist Ireland 322 Afterword 340 Selected reading list 343 Index 359
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- Author
- Hugh Kearney
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
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