Britons; Forging the Nation 1707-1837; Revised Edition

by Linda Colley

• ISBN13: 9780300152807
• ISBN10: 0300152809
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2009-10-27
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

How was Great Britain made? And what has it meant at different times to be British?

Author Biography

Born in Britain, Linda Colley has taught and written on history and current events on both sides of the Atlantic. Previously at Cambridge, Yale and the London School of Economics, she is now Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Britons Re-visited	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Protestants	p. 11
A less than united kingdom	p. 11
The struggles of God's elect	p. 19
Jerusalem the golden	p. 30
A polity by force of faith	p. 44
Profits	p. 55
Land, trade, war and empire	p. 56
Jacobitism and the economics of loyalty	p. 72
Investing in the nation	p. 86
The price of it all	p. 99
Peripheries	p. 102
New landmarks	p. 103
John Wilkes and Englishness	p. 105
A Scottish empire?	p. 118
America and the revolution in British sensibilities	p. 134
Dominance	p. 149
Crisis of an order	p. 152
The making of the British ruling class	p. 158
The cultural reconstruction of an elite	p. 167
Heroes of their own epic	p. 180
Majesty	p. 199
A royal culture confined	p. 200
Why George III was different	p. 209
The mechanics of royal celebration	p. 221
Meanings and magic	p. 233
Womanpower	p. 242
Beating against the bonds of womanhood	p. 244
War and the sexes	p. 256
Making separate spheres work for women	p. 268
A woman's place is in the nation	p. 278
Manpower	p. 289
A nation in arms	p. 292
Who was willing to fight?	p. 297
The private reasons why	p. 306
The politics of popular commitment	p. 315
Victories?	p. 327
Catholic emancipation and division	p. 330
Parliamentary reform and compromise	p. 341
Slavery, freedom and consensus	p. 357
A nation redefined and undefined	p. 368
Conclusions	p. 372
Appendices	p. 385
The Geography of Loyalty in 1745	p. 386
Men at Arms throughout Great Britain, May 1804	p. 388
Volunteers and their Chosen Sphere of Action in 1798	p. 391
Notes	p. 394
Photograph Acknowledgements	p. 426
Index	p. 427
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