Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Sixth Series

by Corporate Author Royal Historical Society

• ISBN13: 9780521793520
• ISBN10: 0521793521
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Also available as a journal, volume ten of the sixth series takes the theme 'the British-Irish Union of 1801' as its main focus and includes the Presidential Address on 'Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: Reshaping the Empire' by P. J. Marshall, 'Court cases and Legal Arguments in England c.10661166' by John Hudson, 'The Union in European Context' by William Doyle, 'Alliances and Misalliances in the politics of the Union' by L. M. Cullen, 'Ireland, India and the Empire, 17801914' by C. A. Bayley and 'The Divergence of England: The Growth of the English Economy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries' by E. A. Wrigley.

Table of Contents

Presidential Address: Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: III, Britain and India	1	(17)
P.J. Marshall
Enlightenment and Revolution: Naples 1799	17	(28)
John Robertson
Kwame Nkrumah and the Chiefs: The Fate of 'Natural Rulers' under Nationalist Governments	45	(20)
Richard Rathbone
Bartolus of Sassoferrato and Free Cities (The Alexander Prize Lecture)	65	(26)
Magnus Ryan
Court Cases and Legal Arguments in England, c. 1066--1166	91	(26)
John Hudson
The Divergence of England: The Growth of the English Economy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (The Prothero Lecture)	117	(26)
E.A. Wrigley
Regional Diversity in the Later Russian Empire	143	(24)
David Saunders
THE BRITISH--IRISH UNION OF 1801
The Union in a European Context	167	(14)
William Doyle
The Union in British History	181	(16)
J.G.A. Pocock
Britain and the Union, 1797--1801	197	(24)
Peter Jupp
Alliances and Misalliances in the Politics of the Union	221	(22)
L.M. Cullen
The Catholics and the Union	243	(16)
Patrick Geoghegan
Popular Politics in Ireland and the Act of Union	259	(30)
James Kelly
The Irish Peerage and the Union, 1700--1971	289	(40)
A.P.W. Malcolmson
The Union and the Military, 1801--c. 1830	329	(24)
Allan Blackstock
Politics, Public Finance and The British-Irish Act of Union of 1801	353	(24)
Trevor McCavery
Ireland, India and the Empire, 1780--1914	377	(22)
C.A. Bayly
Reconsidering the Irish Act of Union	399	(10)
S.J. Connolly
Report of Council for 1999--2000	409	(7)
Publications of the Royal Historical Society	416	(3)
Officers and Council 2000	419