About this title: How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this prize-winning book, Linda Colley explains how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the 1707 Act of Union, and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade and imperial expansion. Here too are numerous individual Britons - heroes and ...
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780300107593ISBN:0300107595
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2005-05-11
ISBN-13:9780300107593ISBN:0300107595
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"Colley's argument is that oour concepts of Britishness were forged in the 130 years after the Act of Union with Scotland and Victoria coming to the throne. The bedrock of British identity was Protestantism and commerce, the latter precipitating the series of wars which established Britain's ascendency over the French and its glibal empires. She sees the book as a counter-weight to the stress British historians, under the infuence of Marxism,place on analysing and celebrating opposition currents, the support sof the French Revolution. Solid history, and plenty of fascinating nuggets. The strength of anti-Catholicism right up to the Catholic Emanicipation Act in 1827 (?) and anti-Scottish feeling as personified by John Wilkes, suggests the extent to which democratic feeling required a negative image to define itself against."
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