Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837Yale University Press, 01.01.2005 - 429 Seiten How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this prize-winning book, Linda Colley combines imperial, political, social, and cultural history to analyze the evolution of Britishness, evoking its enduring tensions as well as its powerful characteristics. Hailed at its publication as "the most dazzling and comprehensive study of a national identity yet to appear” (Tom Nairn), Britons is now reissued with a new Preface by the author commenting on the book’s genesis and critical reception and on recent political developments. "A sweeping survey, . . . evocatively illustrated and engagingly written.”--Harriet Ritvo, New York Times Book Review "Dashingly written and firmly unsentimental.”--Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books "Extremely learned and penetrating . . . [and] most entertaining.”--Conor Cruise O’Brien, New Republic "Challenging, fascinating, enormously well informed.”--John Barrell, London Review of Books "[Colley] has a capacity for historical generalizations that puts her into the front rank among her contemporaries.”--E. P. Thompson, Dissent "Absolutely magnificent.”--Jeffrey Hart, National Review |
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... period . ' Harriet Ritvo , New York Times ' Powerful and absorbing ' Blair Worden , Sunday Telegraph ' Extremely learned and penetrating . It is also most entertaining . brilliant use of iconography . ' Conor Cruise O'Brien , New ...
... period . ' Harriet Ritvo , New York Times ' Powerful and absorbing ' Blair Worden , Sunday Telegraph ' Extremely learned and penetrating . It is also most entertaining . brilliant use of iconography . ' Conor Cruise O'Brien , New ...
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... period to matter hugely . Like most books , Britons also reflects the particularities of its author's own past . At one level , I was reacting as I wrote it against the tendency of many of the best and brightest historians of Britain ...
... period to matter hugely . Like most books , Britons also reflects the particularities of its author's own past . At one level , I was reacting as I wrote it against the tendency of many of the best and brightest historians of Britain ...
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... period and after ; just as the Native American was harassed in the early American Republic , and Muslims were hated and enslaved in Ferdinand and Isabella's Spain . In each case , attacking an internal minority that was perceived as ...
... period and after ; just as the Native American was harassed in the early American Republic , and Muslims were hated and enslaved in Ferdinand and Isabella's Spain . In each case , attacking an internal minority that was perceived as ...
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... period as in others , Continental connections were always as influential and as multifarious as Transatlantic ties and other imperial networks . One of the recurrent argument of Britons is that the overwhelming Catholicism of large ...
... period as in others , Continental connections were always as influential and as multifarious as Transatlantic ties and other imperial networks . One of the recurrent argument of Britons is that the overwhelming Catholicism of large ...
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... period that a sense of British national identity was forged , and that the manner in which it was forged has shaped the quality of this particular sense of nationhood and belonging ever since , both in terms of its remark- able ...
... period that a sense of British national identity was forged , and that the manner in which it was forged has shaped the quality of this particular sense of nationhood and belonging ever since , both in terms of its remark- able ...
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XXXIII | 283 |
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XXI | 164 |
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XXIII | 195 |
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XXVI | 217 |
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XXXVI | 300 |
XXXVII | 308 |
XXXVIII | 321 |
XXXIX | 324 |
XL | 334 |
XLI | 350 |
XLII | 361 |
XLIII | 364 |
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