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• Author/Creator:Colley, Linda, author.
  
• Title:Britons : forging the nation, 1707-1837 / Linda Colley.
  
• ISBN:9780300152807
  0300152809
  
• Edition:Rev. ed., with new introductory essay.
  
• Publication:New Haven, Connecticut ; London : Yale University Press, 2014.
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2014
  
• Physical Description:xxxi, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Reference Library (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: DA485 .C65 2014 (LC)
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Previous edition: London : Pimlico, 2003. originally published by Yale University Press 1992, first published in paperback 1994.
  
• Summary:"In this book, Linda Colley combines imperial, political, social and cultural history to analyse the evolution of Britishness, evoking its enduring tensions as well as its powerful characteristics."--Jacket.
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Protestants. A less than united kingdom; The struggles of God's elect; Jerusalem the golden; A polity by force of faith -- Profits. Land, trade, war and empire; Jacobitism and the economics of loyalty; Investing in the nation; The price of it all -- Peripheries. New landmarks; John Wilkes and Englishness; A Scottish empire?; America and the revolution in British sensibilities -- Dominance. Crisis of an order; The making of the British ruling class; The cultural reconstruction of an elite; Heroes of their own epic -- Majesty. A royal culture confined; Why George III was different; The mechanics of royal celebration; Meanings and magic -- Womanpower. Beating against the bonds of womanhood; War and the sexes; making separate spheres work for women; A woman's place is in the nation -- Manpower. A nation in arms; Who was willing to fight?; The private reasons why; The politics of popular commitment -- Victories? Catholic emancipation and division; Parliamentary reform and compromise; Slavery, freedom and consensus; A nation redefined and undefined -- Appendices. The Geography of Loyalty in 1745; Men at Arms throughout Great Britain, May 1804; Volunteers and their Chosen Sphere of Action in 1798.
  
• Subjects:National characteristics, British--History.
  Nationalism--Great Britain--History.
  British.
  Nationalism--Great Britain--History--18th century.
  Nationalism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
  British.
  Civilization.
  National characteristics, British.
  Nationalism.
  Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.
  Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
  Great Britain--History--1689-1714.
  Great Britain--History--1714-1837.
  Great Britain.
  
• Genre/Form:History.