Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Sixth Series

by Corporate Author Royal Historical Society

• ISBN13: 9780521650090
• ISBN10: 0521650097
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Also available as a journal, volume eight of the sixth series takes the theme 'identities and empires' as its main focus and includes the Presidential Address on 'Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: Reshaping the Empire' by Professor P. J. Marshall, 'Russia, Imperial and Soviet Identities' by Dominic Lieven, and 'Frontiers of the Mind: Conceptions of Community in Colonial Southeast Asia' by A. J. Stockwell.

Table of Contents

Presidential Address: Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century: I, Reshaping the Empire	1	(18)
P.J. Marshall
The Hereford Map: Its Author(s), Two Scenes and a Border	19	(26)
Valerie I.J. Flint
The Meaning of Irish Freedom. Constitutionalism in the Free State	45	(26)
Charles Townshend
The Problem of Pauper Marriage in Seventeenth-Century England (The Alexander Prize)	71	(20)
Steve Hindle
The Age of Uncertainty: Britain in the Early-Nineteenth Century	91	(26)
David Eastwood
The Widow's Mite and Other Strategies: Funding the Catholic Reformation (The Prothero Lecture)	117	(22)
Olwen Hufton
One of Us? William Camden and the Making of History (The Camden Society Centenary Lecture)	139	(26)
Patrick Collinson
For Reasoned Faith or Embattled Creed? Religion for the People in Early Modern Europe	165	(24)
Euan Cameron
IDENTITIES AND EMPIRES
Slavery and Colonial Identity in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius	189	(26)
Megan Vaughan
Empire and National Identities:The Case of Scotland	215	(18)
John M. MacKenzie
Christians, Civilized and Spanish:Multiple Identities in Sixteenth-Century Spain	233	(20)
M.J. Rodriguez-Salgado
Russia, Imperial and Soviet Identities	253	(18)
Dominic Lieven
The British Empire and Muslim Identity in South Asia	271	(20)
Francis Robinson
Am I Myself? Identities In Zaire, Then and Now	291	(18)
Wyatt MacGaffey
Identity, Enlightenment and Political Dissent in Late Colonial Spanish America	309	(28)
Anthony McFarlane
Conceptions of Community in Colonial Southeast Asia	337	(20)
A.J. Stockwell
Report of Council for 1997--1998	357