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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| 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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'... written with elegance ... enormously informative and compelling reading.' The Times Literary Supplement 'They will find some fascinating lessons in Colin's Kidd's book on British identities in the 17th and 18th centuries.' The Weekend Review 'Kidd's effortlessly brilliant research and readable prose, in which are preserved the empirical and discursive elements of the historical enterprise at its best.' H-Net Book Review 'British Identities before Nationalism is an excellent synthesis of existing secondary material on historiography, national myths and the whole debate over the beginnings of nationalism.' Eighteenth-Century Ireland Read more...
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- Great Britain -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 17th century.
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- National characteristics, British -- History.
- Group identity -- Great Britain -- History.
- Constitutional history -- Great Britain.
- Ethnic groups -- Great Britain -- History.
- Nationalism -- Great Britain -- History.
- Ethnicity -- Great Britain -- History.
- Mythology, Celtic -- Great Britain.
- Celts -- Great Britain.
- Mythology, British.
- Celts -- Great Britain -- History.
- Britanniques -- Histoire.
- Identité collective -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
- Histoire constitutionnelle -- Grande-Bretagne.
- Groupes ethniques -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
- Nationalisme -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
- Ethnicité -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
- Celtes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
- Mythologie britannique.
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- Grande-Bretagne -- Relations interethniques -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
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- Nationale identiteit.
- Nationalbewusstsein.
- Ethnizität.
- Ethnische Identität.
- Großbritannien.
- Caractère national britannique.
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- Grande-Bretagne -- Relations interethniques -- 18e siècle.
