The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714–1837

by Edited by Brendan Simms , Torsten Riotte

• ISBN13: 9780521154628
• ISBN10: 0521154626
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-24
• 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

Notes on contributors

Introduction. Hanover: the missing dimension

The Hanoverian Nexus: Walpole and the Electorate

Pitt and Hanover

George III and Hanover

The Hanoverian dimension in early ninenteenth century British politics

The end of the dynastic union, 1815-1837

The University of Göttingen and the Personal Union, 1737-1837

The confessional dimension

Hanover and the public sphere

Dynastic perspectives Clarissa

British Maritime Strategy and Hanover 1714-1763

Hanover in mid-eighteenth-century Franco-British geopolitics

Hanover and British republicanism

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