Cargando…

British identities before nationalism : ethnicity and nationhood in the Atlantic world, 1600-1800 /

"Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were confessional, institutional and juridical.&quo...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kidd, Colin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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. Conclusion.