Название: The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles 1093-1343
Автор: R. R. Davies
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 224
Размер: 16.8 Мб
Язык: English

Long before the British Empire came into existence, was there an English Empire? In this study, the author examines England’s medieval conquest, the advance of English power, and the colonization of the outer zones — particularly the countries of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales — of the British Isles. The book is able to discuss the regional and ethnic fissures that entail how the British Isles remain to be separated as four different countries and four different peoples. The book shows how the increasingly vexed question of the future of the United Kingdom has its roots in the Middle Ages, when Edward I set out to subjugate his Celtic neighbours.