Kathleen Wilson

The Island Race

Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rooted in a period of vigorous exploration and colonialism, this innovative study takes the idea of the English as an 'Island Race' and shows how this concept is key to understanding British imperial history in the eighteenth century.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Twenty-Eighth edition
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780415158961
• ISBN-10: 0415158966
• Artikelnr.: 22307921

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Wilson is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has written widely on empire and the politics of culture in eighteenth-century Britain, including The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England 1715-1785, winner of the 1995 Whitfield Prize for British History, Royal Historical Society, and the 1996 John Ben Snow Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Nations, Empires and Identities in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 1 Citizenship, Empire and Modernity in the English Provinces
Chapter 2 The Island Race: Captain Cook And English Ethnicity
Chapter 3 Britannia Into Battle: Women, War and Identities in England and America
Chapter 4 The Black Widow: Gender, Race and Performance in England and Jamaica
Chapter 5 Breasts, Sodomy and the Lash: Masculinity and Enlightenment Aboard the Cook Voyages
Epilogue: "Save the Stones" King Alfred and the Performance of Origins