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Colley, Linda

Britons : forging the nation, 1707-1837 / Linda Colley - Revised edition - xxxi, 442 pages : illustrations, map, photographs ; 24 cm

"Revised edition with new introductory essay"--Cover Previous edition: London : Pimlico, 2003

Includes bibliographical references and index

-- Protestants. A less than united kingdom; The struggles of God's elect; Jerusalem the golden; A polity by force of faith -- Profits. Land, trade, war and empire; Jacobitism and the economics of loyalty; Investing in the nation; The price of it all -- Peripheries. New landmarks; John Wilkes and Englishness; A Scottish empire?; America and the revolution in British sensibilities -- Dominance. Crisis of an order; The making of the British ruling class; The cultural reconstruction of an elite; Heroes of their own epic -- Majesty. A royal culture confined; Why George III was different; The mechanics of royal celebration; Meanings and magic -- 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 -- Manpower. A nation in arms; Who was willing to fight?; The private reasons why; The politics of popular commitment -- Victories? Catholic emancipation and division; Parliamentary reform and compromise; Slavery, freedom and consensus; A nation redefined and undefined -- Appendices. The Geography of Loyalty in 1745; Men at Arms throughout Great Britain, May 1804; Volunteers and their Chosen Sphere of Action in 1798

ISBN: 9780300152807 0300152809

Subjects--Topical Terms:
British
Nationalism--History--Great Britain--18th century
Nationalism--History--Great Britain--19th century

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--History--1689-1714
Great Britain--History--1714-1837

LC Class. No.: DA485 / .C65 2009

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