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ISBN:
9780511660191
Content:
The historical resonances of the concept of 'Britain' for the communities of the Atlantic Archipelago in the early modern period are explored here in terms of the ideological demands made upon it. Various and competing concepts of Britishness are examined, from the Henrician legislation which united Wales with England and which created the kingdom of Ireland, to the Act of Union of the realms of England and Scotland. The chequered history of the consciousness of Britain as a polity which embraced the united kingdoms is discussed in relation to the distinctive national identities of the constituent countries, and the question of the impact of 'Britain' on English policy-making under the Tudor, Stuart and the first Hanoverian monarchs is addressed. The puzzling resistance of the Irish to assimilation in contrast to the docility of the Welsh and - eventually - of the Scots is also explored.
Content:
Tudor Wales, national identity and the British inheritance / Peter Roberts -- The English Reformation and identity formation in Ireland and Wales / Brendan Bradshaw -- Faith, culture and sovereignty : Irish nationality and its development, 1558-1625 / Marc Caball -- From English to British literature : John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The faerie queen / Andrew Hadfield -- The British problem in three tracts on Ireland by Spenser, Bacon and Milton / Willy Maley -- James Ussher and the creation of an Irish protestant identity / Alan Ford -- Seventeenth-century Wales : definition and identity / Philip Jenkins -- Scottish identity in the seventeenth century / Keith M. Brown -- The Gaidhealtachd and the emergence of the Scottish highlands / Jane Dawson -- 'No remedy more proper' : Anglo-Irish unionism before 1707 / Jim Smyth -- Protestantism, constitutionalism and British identity under the later Stuarts / Colin Kidd
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521893619
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521433839
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521433839
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521893619
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als British consciousness and identity Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998 ISBN 0521433835
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521433839
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Großbritannien
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Entstehung
;
Geschichte 1533-1707
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511660191
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