Uniting the Kingdom?

<p>In <em>Uniting the Kingdom?</em> a group of the most distinguished historians from Britain and Ireland assemble to consider the question of British identity spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the present.<br> Traditional chronological and regional frontiers are broken down as medievalists early modernists and modernists debate the key issues of the British state: the conflicting historiographies the nature of political tensions and the themes of expansion and contraction.<br> This outstanding collection of essays forms an illuminating introduction to the most up-to-date thinking about the problems of British histories and identities.</p>