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Introduction David Baker and Willy Maley; Part I: 1. Opening the field:British history and 'The British history': The same old story? PhilipSchwyzer; 2. An uncertain union David Baker and Willy Maley; 3. Revisingcriticism: Ireland and the British model Andrew Murphy; Part II. ContestedPeripheries: 4. 'The lost British lamb': English Catholic exiles and theproblem of Britain Christopher Highley; 5. 'Making history': Holinshed'sIrish chronicles, 1577 and 1587 Richard A. McCabe; Part III. BritishShakespeare: 6. Henry IV: metatheatrical Britain Matthew Greenfield; 7.Uncertain unions: Welsh leeks in Henry V Patricia Parker; 8. Delving to theroot: Cymbeline, Scotland, and the English race Mary Floyd-Wilson; Part IV.Union Questions: 9. Reinventing the matter of Britain: undermining the statein Jacobean masques Jayne Elisabeth Archer and Philippa Berry; 10. MappingBritish identities: Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great BritaineChristopher Ivic; Part V. Britain's Brave New World: 11. Bruited abroad: JohnWhite and Thomas Harriot's Colonial Representations of Ancient Britain AndrewHadfield; 12. The Commonwealth of the Word: New England, Old England, and thePraying Indians Linda Gregerson; Part VI. Restoring Britain: 13. Orrery'sIreland and the British problem, 1641-1679 John Kerrigan; 14. Jacobiteliterature and national Identities Murray Pittock; Part VII: 15. Historiansrespond: literature and the new British and Irish histories Jane Ohlmeyer;16. Text, time, and the pursuit of 'British Identities' Derek Hirst.