The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714–1837

by Edited by Brendan Simms , Torsten Riotte

• ISBN13: 9780521842228
• ISBN10: 0521842220
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of genealogical tables	p. vii
List of tables	p. viii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction. Hanover: the missing dimension	p. 1
Hanoverian nexus: Walpole and the Electorate	p. 10
Pitt and Hanover	p. 28
George III and Hanover	p. 58
The Hanoverian dimension in early nineteenth-century British politics	p. 86
The end of the dynastic union, 1815-1837	p. 111
The university of Gottingen and the Personal Union, 1737-1837	p. 128
The confessional dimension	p. 161
Hanover and the public sphere	p. 183
Dynastic perspectives	p. 213
British maritime strategy and Hanover 1714-1763	p. 252
Hanover in mid-eighteenth-century Franco-British geopolitics	p. 275
Hanover and British republicanism	p. 301
Index	p. 324
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