Amagisterial new one-volume history of the British Isles from the Romans to the present day, by six of our most prestigious and engaging historiansIn "A World by Itself," six distinguished British historians offer the most definitive and compelling history of the British Isles to date. Tracing the political, religious, and material cultures from the Romans to the present day, it is at once an urgent reassessment of our shared past and an inspirational celebration of British history. It focuses on the major themes and most dramatic moments of the last two millenia, from the Romans to...

History, like the present, is always changing. Scholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have generated unprecedented intellectual activity. In this volume, Jonathan Clark discusses Reformation to reform between the years 1660 to 1832.