Britons : forging the nation, 1707-1837 / Linda Colley
London : Pimlico, 1994. Pimlico edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #380853
ISBN: 071266050X
Physical description: xii, 429 pages ; portraits ; illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: 1. Protestants. A less than united kingdom. The struggles of God's elect. Jerusalem the golden. A polity by force of faith -- 2. Profits. Land, trade, war and empire. Jabobitism and the economics of loyalty. Investing in the nation. The price of it all -- 3. Peripheries. New landmarks. John Wilkes and Englishness. A Scottish empire? America and the revolution in British sensibilities -- 4. Dominance. Crisis of an order. The making of the British ruling class. The cultural reconstruction of an elite. Heroes of their own epic -- 5. Majesty. A royal culture confined. Why George III was different. The mechanics of royal celebration. Meanings and magic -- 6. 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 -- 7. Manpower. A nation in arms. Who was willing to fight? The private reasons why. The politics of popular commitment -- 8. Victories? Catholic emancipation and division. Parliamentary reform and compromise. Slavery, freedom and consensus. A nation redefined and undefined -- App. The geography of loyalty in 1745 -- App. Men at arms throughout Great Britain, May 1804 -- App. Volunteers and their chosen sphere of action in 1798. Subjects: George I, George II, George III, George IV. National characteristics, British History. Nationalism Great Britain History. Britanniques Histoire. Nationalisme Grande-Bretagne Histoire. 15.70 history of Europe. Civilization. National characteristics, British. Nationalism. Nationale identiteit. Natievorming. National characteristics, British History. Nationalism Great Britain History.
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