Britons : Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

Name: Britons : Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
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ISBN: 9780300059250

ISBN-10: 0300059256

ISBN-13: 9780300059250

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Authors: Linda Colley

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/10/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
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
Introduction	p. 1
Protestants	p. 11
A less than united kingdom	p. 11
The struggles of God's elect	p. 18
Jerusalem the golden	p. 30
A polity by force of faith	p. 43
Profits	p. 55
Land, trade, war and empire	p. 56
Jabobitism and the economics of loyalty	p. 71
Investing in the nation	p. 85
The price of it all	p. 98
Peripheries	p. 101
New landmarks	p. 101
John Wilkes and Englishness	p. 105
A Scottish empire?	p. 117
America and the revolution in British sensibilities	p. 132
Dominance	p. 147
Crisis of an order	p. 149
The making of the British ruling class	p. 155
The cultural reconstruction of an elite	p. 164
Heroes of their own epic	p. 177
Majesty	p. 195
A royal culture confined	p. 196
Why George III was different	p. 204
The mechanics of royal celebration	p. 217
Meanings and magic	p. 228
Womanpower	p. 237
Beating against the bonds of womanhood	p. 238
War and the sexes	p. 250
Making separate spheres work for women	p. 262
A woman's place is in the nation	p. 273
Manpower	p. 283
A nation in arms	p. 285
Who was willing to fight?	p. 291
The private reasons why	p. 300
The politics of popular commitment	p. 308
Victories?	p. 321
Catholic emancipation and division	p. 324
Parliamentary reform and compromise	p. 334
Slavery, freedom and consensus	p. 350
A nation redefined and undefined	p. 361
Conclusions	p. 364
App. The geography of loyalty in 1745	p. 376
App. Men at arms throughout Great Britain, May 1804	p. 378
App. Volunteers and their chosen sphere of action in 1798	p. 382
Notes	p. 385
Index	p. 414
Photograph Acknowledgements	p. 430
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