TY - BOOK AU - Colley,Linda ED - Yale University Press TI - Britons: forging the nation, 1707-1837 SN - 9780300152807 AV - DA485 .C65 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New Haven [Conn.], London PB - Yale University Press KW - British KW - Nationalism KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 18th century KW - 19th century KW - 1689-1714 KW - 1714-1837 N1 - "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 ER -