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

Author: Colin Kidd
Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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"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." "Colin Kidd's point of departure is the widely shared orthodox belief that the whole world had been peopled by the offspring  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Colin Kidd
ISBN: 0521624037 9780521624039
OCLC Number: 39658815
Description: viii, 302 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Colin Kidd.
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