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1 online resource (xiv, 377 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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The present and the past |
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Present and the past.
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; List of Acknowledgements; Preface; Prologue; 1. The Ingredients Assemble; A question of pedigre; A pattern of island; Borders and boundarie; England and the Englis; The Normans and the English; Scotland and the Scots; Wales and the Welsh; The matter of Britain; Continuities and contrasts; 2. The Framework Established; Entire of itself?; Church and state; King and country; Parliament and people; On the edge of a new world?; Part 1: Great Britain -- Creation, Crisis, Consolidation C.1500-C.1750 |
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3. Designs and Accidents: Making Great Britain c. 1500-c.1700England, Wales and Scotland in the sixteenth century; England and Scotland in the seventeenth century; 4. Precedents and Rights: The British Body Politic C.1500-C.1750; Crowns and constitutions; Tudor monarchy; Stuart monarchy; Parliament and the Tudors; Parliament and the Stuarts; Parliament and the Protectorate; Restoration and a national equilibrium?; 'Revolution'?; William and Mary, Anne and two Georges; The Jacobite question; Stability?; 5. Truth, Uniformity and Toleration: Making a British Compromise? c.1500-c.1750 |
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Ecclesia AnglicanaA Welsh Ecclesia Anglicana?; Ecclesia Scoticana; Dissenters: Catholic and Protestant; Restorations; Equilibrium?; Compromise?; Liberty; 6. New World Power: A British Vision? C.1500-C.1750; Angles of approach; Interests: dynastic and national; Sea power; Europe: the seventeenth century; 'The world'; Comfortable identity?; Home fires; Part 2: Great Britain: World Power C.1745-C.1945; 7. Preservation and Progress: Representing the People c.1745-c.1845; Oligarchy to democracy; Kings; Reform or revolution?; Reform of the constitution c.1760-1832 |
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Crisis of the ancien régime (1): the significance of 1832Crisis of the ancien régime (2): the repeal of the Corn Laws; 8. Preservation and Progress: Representing the People, c.1845-c.1945; The queen; Equipoise: Gladstone and Disraeli c.1845-1867; Mr Gladstone's history; Apocalypse?; First principles?; Chartism -- the road not taken; Democracy -- monster or miracle?; Mr Disraeli's history; Equilibrium or oblivion?; The franchise framework c.1868-1914; A Liberal era?; The Liberal mansion (1): Whigs, a wasting asset?; The Liberal mansion (2): men of business |
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The Liberal mansion (3): a supply of conscienceConservative come-back (1): Disraelian apotheosis; Conservative come-back (2): gloom and doom; Sinister assault?; Breaking the domestic mould?; Strange death and constitutional crisis; Britain is best; Kings; Parties; 9. Pax Britannica: Domination and Decline c.1745-c.1945; The tie that binds?; Great Britain: world state?; Colonial British?; Anglo-Saxons all?; India: British?; 'More an Asiatic power than a European'?; 'Fundamental instincts'; An old-fashioned island fortress?; Talking of Castlereagh ... ; Ideology and nation |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-355) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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National characteristics, British -- History
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Group identity -- Great Britain -- History
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Ethnology -- Great Britain.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Civilization
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Ethnology
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Group identity
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National characteristics, British
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Nationale identiteit.
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Great Britain -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056619
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317901037 |
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1317901037 |
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9781317901044 |
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1317901045 |
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