Secondary Reading: Key Texts

• S. Ellis & S. Barber (eds.) Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State, 1485–1725 (1995), chapters 6-13
• Brendan Bradshaw and John Morrill, The British Problem 1504-1707: State formation in the Atlantic Archipelago (1996), chapters 1-7
• B. Bradshaw and P. Roberts (eds.) British Consciousness and Identity: the making of Britain (1998), chapters 1-9
• Barry Coward, The Stuart Age (2014).
• Gabriel Glickman, Making the imperial nation : colonization, politics, and English identity, 1660-1700 (2023)
• Clare Jackson, Devil Land: England Under Siege (2022)
• M. Kishlansky, A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603-1714 (1996), esp. chs. 2-7.
• Carla Gardina Pestana, The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 (2007)
• Philip Schwyzer, 'Nationalism in the Renaissance', Oxford Handbooks Online (2016).

Introduction to Early Modern Primary Sources

• L. Sangha and J. Willis, Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources (London: Routledge, 2016).

Additional background reading

• David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000).
• Glenn Burgess, The new British history: founding a modern state 1603-1715 (1999), chs. 1-3, 6, 8-11
• Nicholas Canny, Making Ireland British 1580-1650 (2001).
• Nicholas Canny, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire: I, The Origins of Empire (1998), esp. chapters 1-10
• Barry Coward, A Companion to Stuart Britain (2007).
• J.H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 (2007), parts 1 and 2
• J. H. Elliott, 'A Europe of Composite Monarchies', Past & Present, 137 (1992).
• Colin Kidd, British Identities before nationalism: ethnicity and nationhood in the Atlantic World 1600-1800 (1999).
• Bruce Lenman, England’s Colonial Wars 1550-1688: Conflicts, Empire and National Identity (2001), chs. 5, 6, 7, 8
• J.G.A. Pocock, ed., Three British Revolutions: 1641, 1688, 1776 (1980), chapters 1-5