Research Catalog

Title

The Penguin atlas of British & Irish history / consultant editors, Barry Cunliffe [and others].

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cunliffe, Barry W.

Description

1 atlas (320 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps; 31 cm

Summary

Drawing on the latest findings of historians and archaeologists, and illustrated throughout with superbly detailed maps and photographs, this comprehensive guide follows the story of the British Isles from prehistoric times to the present day. The full-color maps are enhanced by the narrative, which examines topics such as the spread of literacy, the roots of organized sport, and the advance of the twentieth-century suburb. Scholarly yet accessible, exploring major events, everyday life, and new historical themes, this volume is set to become the definitive introduction to British and Irish history.

Alternative Title

• British & Irish history
• Atlas of British & Irish history

Subjects

• Ireland
• Great Britain
• Ouvrages de référence
• Reference works
• Maps
• Historical geography
• Ireland > Historical geography > Maps
• Great Britain > Historical geography > Maps

Genre/Form

• Reference works.
• Maps.
• Ouvrages de référence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes chronological table, bibliographical references and index.

Contents

GPt. 1. Ancient Britain & Ireland. Britain's Earliest Humans. The Neolithic Age. The Ritual Landscape. The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. Hill-forts & Oppida. The Roman Conquest. Rome's Northern Frontier. Roman Economy & Society. Late Roman Britain. Roman London -- Pt. 2. Medieval Britain & Ireland. The Migration Period. Saxons & Celts. The Viking Age. Viking York. The Age of Unification. The Normans. The Medieval Church. The Angevin Empire. Britain & the Crusades. Castles. The Plantagenet Hegemony. Medieval Landscapes. The Hundred Years War. The Medieval Economy. The Black Death. The Late Middle Ages. Medieval Norwich -- Pt. 3. Early Modern Britain & Ireland. The Age of the Reformation. Wales after the Union. The Anglo-Scottish Border. Parliament & Politics. Tudor London. Royal Palaces. The First Civil War. The British Republic. Restoration & Union. Colonial Expansion to 1707. 18th-century Dublin. The Jacobite Rebellions. Languages 1500-1800. Agricultural Change. Country Estates. Enlightenment Edinburgh. The 18th-century Empire. Turnpikes & Canals. The Industrial Revolution. American Independence -- Pt. 4. 19th-Century Britain & Ireland. Introduction. The Napoleonic Wars. The Age of Reform. Industrial Manchester. The 19th-century Empire. The Railway Age. Victorian Britain. Education & Literacy. Public Leisure: Sport. Seaside Resorts. Migration & Emigration. Irish Nationalism. The Labour/Co-op Movements. Working-class Housing. Britain's Overseas Trade. The South African War -- Pt. 5. Modern Britain & Ireland. Introduction. The War in Europe 1914-18. Other War Theatres 1914-18. Women's Suffrage. Ireland's Independence. The Interwar Years. Metroland. The Home Front 1939-45. Overseas Theatres 1939-45. The Atlantic War 1939-45. 20th-century Elections. Austerity & Affluence. The Aftermath of Empire. Language & Dialect. 20th-century Transport. Society in the 1960s. The Troubles. Deindustrialisation. The British Isles Today. 20th-century London. Britain, Ireland & the World.

ISBN

• 0140295186
• 9780140295184
• 0141009152
• 9780141009155

LCCN

2002623669

OCLC

• ocm50111566
• SCSB-14587027

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library