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Author Kidd, Colin

Title British Identities before Nationalism : Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Prologue: the Mosaic foundations of early modern European identity; 3 Ethnic theology and British identities; 4 Whose ancient constitution? Ethnicity and the English past, 1600-1800; 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, 1600-1790; 8 Constructing the pre-romantic Celt; 9 Mapping a Gothic Europe; 10 The varieties of Gothicism in the British Atlantic world, 1689-1800
11 ConclusionIndex
Summary 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
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Subject National characteristics, British -- History
Group identity -- Great Britain -- History
Constitutional history -- Great Britain.
Ethnic groups -- Great Britain -- History
Nationalism -- Great Britain -- History
Ethnicity -- Great Britain -- History
Mythology, Celtic -- Great Britain
Celts -- Great Britain.
Mythology, British.
Celts
Constitutional history
Ethnic groups
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Group identity
Mythology, British
Mythology, Celtic
National characteristics, British
Nationalism
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 17th century
Great Britain -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511050756
0511050755