Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its
mystique and broken the automatic link between state and nation. This has encouraged the …

The accession of James VI of Scotland to the English throne in 1603 created a multiple
monarchy covering the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland which endured …

A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish
independence movements A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an …

Institutions that promoted or restrained early modern economic growth were established,
sustained, and often destroyed by states. Yet their economic history lacks either a …

More than 100,000 Ulster Presbyterians of Scottish origin migrated to the American colonies
in the six decades prior to the American Revolution, the largest movement of any group from …

Using a wide range of legal, administrative and literary sources, this study explores the role
of the royal pardon in the exercise and experience of authority in Tudor England. It examines …

The second edition of Steven Ellis's formidable work represents not only a survey, but also a
critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland. It explores Ireland both …

Working with the technologies of pen and paper, scissors and glue, naturalists in early
modern England, Scotland, and Wales wrote, revised, and recombined their words …

Modern scholars, fixated on the'winners' in England's sixteenth-and seventeenth-century
religious struggles, have too readily assumed the inevitability of Protestantism's historical …

Much has been written about the decline of the United Kingdom. The Two Unions looks
instead at the lengthy survival of the Union, examining the institutions, structures, and …