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9780511496936
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For more than 120 years (1714–1837) Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This made Britain a continental European state in many respects, and diluted her sense of insular apartness. The geopolitical focus of Britain was now as much on Germany, on the Elbe and the Weser as it was on the Channel or overseas. At the same time, the Hanoverian connection was a major and highly controversial factor in British high politics and popular political debate. This volume was the first systematically to explore the subject by a team of experts drawn from the UK, US and Germany. They integrate the burgeoning specialist literature on aspects of the Personal Union into the broader history of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Never before had the impact of the Hanoverian connection on British politics, monarchy and the public sphere, been so thoroughly investigated
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Introduction. Hanover : the missing dimension / Brendan Simms -- Hanoverian nexus : Walpole and the electorate / Jeremy Black -- Pitt and Hanover / Brendan Simms -- George III and Hanover / Torsten Riotte -- The Hanoverian dimension in early nineteenth-century British politics / Christopher D. Thompson -- The end of the dynastic union, 1815-1837 / Mijndert Bertram -- The university of Göttingen and the personal union, 1737-1837 / Thomas Biskup -- The confessional dimension / Andrew C. Thompson -- Hanover and the public sphere / Bob Harris -- Dynastic perspectives / Clarissa Campbell Orr -- British maritime strategy and Hanover 1714-1763 / Richard Harding -- Hanover in mid-eighteenth-century Franco-British geopolitics / H.M. Scott -- Hanover and British republicanism / Nicholas B. Harding
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521842228
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521154628
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Print version ISBN 9780521842228
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511496936
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