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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kidd, Colin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.