Kenneth L. Campbell is Professor of History at Monmouth University, USA. He is the author of Ireland’s History: From Prehistory to the Present (2013) and Western Civilization: A Global and Comparative Approach, Volumes I & II (2012).

• Introduction: Approaches to the History of the British Isles1. Peoples and Places: The Beginnings of Regional Identities from Prehistoric Times to the Early Middle Ages2. Conquest, Colonization, and Culture: The High Middle Ages from ca. 1000 to 1348 3. Plague, Politics, and Power: The Later Middle Ages from the Black Death to the Beginnings of the Reformation4. Religion, Warfare, and Dynastic Politics: The Tudors and the Stewarts in the Sixteenth Century5. From Stewart to Stuart: The Monarchy and the Three Kingdoms, 1603 to 1642 6. Interregnum and Restoration: From Cromwell to the Battle of the Boyne7.The Revolution Settlement, the 1707 Act of Union, and the Jacobites: From the Treaty of Limerick to the Battle of Culloden8. Reform and Rebellion: Political Culture in the Britain and Ireland in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century 9. War with France and Its Aftermath: 1801—1832 10. The Victorian Period: Politics, Society, and Culture in the Nineteenth Century11. Britain’s Moment as a World Power: The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century 12. In the Shadow of the Great War, ca. 1890—1918 13. Peace and War, 1919—194514. The Post-War Period, 1945 to 1960: Social Change and the End of Empire15. Change, Instability, and Adjustment: ca. 1960—197916. Demands, Disappointments, Hopes, and Promises: ca. 1979—2004 Conclusion: History and the Future of the British Isles in the Twenty-First CenturyBibliographyIndex

This is a bold book in its chronological range and synoptic vision. Kenneth Campbell has an outsider’s penetrating eye in exploring, century on century, the complex ways in which Britain and Ireland have evolved. There could be no better time than the present to study this guide to their past.