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Britons : forging the nation, 1707-1837 /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2005]
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| Edición: | Revised edition, with new introductory essay. |
| Colección: | Yale Nota bene.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Appendices. The Geography of Loyalty in 1745; Men at Arms throughout Great Britain, May 1804; Volunteers and their Chosen Sphere of Action in 1798.