The first English empire : power and identities in the British Isles 1093-1343 : the Ford lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1998

Long before the British Empire came into existence, was there an English Empire? In this compelling study, R. R. Davies examines England's medieval conquest and colonization of the outer zones of the British Isles. He shows how the increasingly vexed question of the future of the United Kingdom has its roots in the Middle Ages, when Edward I set out to subjugate his Celtic neighbours.