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British History, 1660-1832: National Identity and Local Culture
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.
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British History, 1660-1832: National Identity and Local Culture
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.
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British History, 1660-1832: National Identity and Local Culture

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

by Alexander Murdoch
British History, 1660-1832: National Identity and Local Culture

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

by Alexander Murdoch

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333600320
Publisher: C.J. Pike
Publication date: 01/20/1999
Series: British Studies Series
Edition description: 1998
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ALEXANDER MURDOCH is Senior Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Region and Locality.- The Stuart Monarchy and the Idea of Britain.- 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.

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From the Publisher

'Alexander Murdoch's book presents a series of interlocking arguments about why the idea of Britain and British history matters in the 'long eighteenth century', and is, in part, a firm, but always courteous and balanced, response to such criticisms and doubts. It is also a timely volume, given the apparently mounting public pressures for 'nationalist' histories in present-day Scotland.' - Bob Harris, Scottish Historical Review

'This little book provides a helpfully broad view of the period' - Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum, Annotated Bibliography for Georgians and Jacobites: Scotland 1715-1800

'students of the seventeenth century will find much of interest' - Barry Coward, Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature

'This is a learned, lively, thought-provoking attempt to grapple with a range of very complex issues.' - Bob Harris, Scottish Historical Review

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