British History, 1660-1832: National Identity and Local Culture (British Studies)

Murdoch, Alexander

Palgrave Macmillan（1999/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780333600313
• DDC分類 941

Full Description

This is an interpretative study of the idea of Britain, examining the transformation of a sectarian concept into an imperial ideology forged during a period of sustained warfare in Europe and ever-expanding areas beyond Europe during the second half of the Eighteenth century. It seeks to examine constitutional history from a non-Anglocentric perspective and to relocate it to historiographical developments in Social History and the History of Ideas. Based on more than 25 years of research, it seeks to examine critically a concept which increasingly has come under public debate during the past decade.

Contents

IntroductionBritain.- James Loses the Kingdoms: The Revolutions of 1688 in their British Context.- The Union of England and Scotland and the Development of the Hanoverian State.- The Idea of Britain and the Creation of the First British Empire.- Peripheral Nations? Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Provincial England.- Cultural Politics: National Culture in a Metropolitan State.- The American Revolution and the Origins of the Second British Empire.- War and Nation 1793-1815: British Identity and the New Empire.- Empire and its Discontents: English Nationalism and the Imperial State.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.