Colin Kidd (University of Glasgow)

British Identities Before Nationalism

Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600 1800

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Produktbeschreibung

This offers a comprehensive coverage of ethnic and national identities in the British world in the era which immediately preceded the onset of modern racialist and nationalist thinking. Ranging across the political cultures of England, Scotland, Ireland and revolutionary America, it also considers European influences and comparisons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780521024532
• ISBN-10: 0521024536
• Artikelnr.: 21488751

Autorenporträt

Colin Kidd is Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Part I. Theological Contexts: 2. Prologue: the mosaic foundations of early modern British identity
3. Ethnic theology and British identities
Part II. The Three Kingdoms: 4. Whose ancient constitution? Ethnicity and the English past, 1600-c. 1790
5. Britons, Saxons and the Anglican quest for legitimacy
6. The Gaelic dilemma in early modern Scottish political culture
7. The weave of Irish identities, 1600-c. 1790
Part III. Points of Contact: 8. Constructing the pre-romantic Celt
9. Mapping a Gothic Europe
10. The varieties of Gothicism in the British Atlantic world, 1689-c. 1790
11. Conclusion
Index.