Britons Forging the Nation 1707-1837

Name: Britons Forging the Nation 1707-1837
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ISBN: 9780300152807

ISBN-10: 0300152809

ISBN-13: 9780300152807

Edition: 3rd 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Linda Colley

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How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire. Lavishly illustrated and powerful,Britonsremains a major contribution to our understanding of Britain's past, and continues to influence ongoing controversies about this polity's survival and future. This edition contains an extensive new preface by the author. "A sweeping survey, . . . evocatively illustrated and engagingly written."Harriet Ritvo,New York Times Book Review "Challenging, fascinating, enormously well informed."John…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 10/27/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.91" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 2.024
Language: English

Linda Colley was professor of history at yale University from 1982-1997 when she accepted an appointment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has just accepted a position as professor of history at Princeton which will begin in the Fall of 2003.



Acknowledgements


Britons Re-visited


Introduction



Protestants


A less than united kingdom


The struggles of God's elect


Jerusalem the golden


A polity by force of faith



Profits


Land, trade, war and empire


Jacobitism and the economics of loyalty


Investing in the nation


The price of it all



Peripheries


New landmarks


John Wilkes and Englishness


A Scottish empire?


America and the revolution in British sensibilities



Dominance


Crisis of an order


The making of the British ruling class


The cultural reconstruction of an elite


Heroes of their own epic



Majesty


A royal culture confined


Why George III was different


The mechanics of royal celebration


Meanings and magic



Womanpower


Beating against the bonds of womanhood


War and the sexes


Making separate spheres work for women


A woman's place is in the nation



Manpower


A nation in arms


Who was willing to fight?


The private reasons why


The politics of popular commitment



Victories?


Catholic emancipation and division


Parliamentary reform and compromise


Slavery, freedom and consensus


A nation redefined and undefined


Conclusions


Appendices



The Geography of Loyalty in 1745



Men at Arms throughout Great Britain, May 1804



Volunteers and their Chosen Sphere of Action in 1798


Notes


Photograph Acknowledgements


Index