Britons
Subtitle: forging the nation, 1707-1837
By: Linda Colley
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780099427216
Subjects: Civilization; British National characteristics; History; Nationalism; Nationalbewusstsein; Nationenbildung
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-446) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Protestants. A less than united kingdom. The struggles of God's elect. Jerusalem the golden. A polity by force of faith; title: 2. Profits. Land, trade, war and empire. Jabobitism and the economics of loyalty. Investing in the nation. The price of it all; title: 3. Peripheries. New landmarks. John Wilkes and Englishness. A Scottish empire? America and the revolution in British sensibilities; title: 4. Dominance. Crisis of an order. The making of the British ruling class. The cultural reconstruction of an elite. Heroes of their own epic; title: 5. Majesty. A royal culture confined. Why George III was different. The mechanics of royal celebration. Meanings and magic; title: 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; title: 7. Manpower. A nation in arms. Who was willing to fight? The private reasons why. The politics of popular commitment; title: 8. Victories? Catholic emancipation and division. Parliamentary reform and compromise. Slavery, freedom and consensus. A nation redefined and undefined; title: App. The geography of loyalty in 1745; title: App. Men at arms throughout Great Britain, May 1804; title: App. Volunteers and their chosen sphere of action in 1798.