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It is hard to write the history of the British Isles in these years as anything other than a success story.

In reality, nothing about these successes was preordained.

In the mid seventeenth century the British Isles were marginal to Europe.

(Paperback)

Six historians focus on the major themes and most dramatic moments of the last two millenia: the rise and fall of empires; reformation, revolution and restoration; wars both civil and global; and the enduring question of what it means to be British. .