British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were confessional, institutional and juridical. Colin Kidd's point of departure is the widely shared orthodox belief that the whole world had been peopled by the offspring of Noah. In addition, Kidd probes inconsistencies in national myths of origin and ancient constitutional claims, and considers points of contact which existed in the early modern era between ethnic identities which are now viewed as antithetical, including those of Celts and Saxons. He also argues that Gothicism qualified the notorious Francophobia of eighteenth-century Britons. A wide-ranging example of the new British history, this study draws upon evidence from England, Scotland, Ireland and America, while remaining alert to European comparisons and influences. |
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... nevertheless not a direct continuation of older forms of identity , but is rather ' recon- structed ' out of pre - existing materials . " Quite apart from this debate over the historic provenance of national- isms , there is the related ...
... nevertheless not a direct continuation of older forms of identity , but is rather ' recon- structed ' out of pre - existing materials . " Quite apart from this debate over the historic provenance of national- isms , there is the related ...
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... Nevertheless , although the names of Lafitau , Pluche , Banier and Four- mont are obviously less familiar than those of their new breed of oppo- nents – Bernard de Fontenelle ( 1657–1757 ) , Voltaire , Hume and Charles de Brosses ( 1709 ...
... Nevertheless , although the names of Lafitau , Pluche , Banier and Four- mont are obviously less familiar than those of their new breed of oppo- nents – Bernard de Fontenelle ( 1657–1757 ) , Voltaire , Hume and Charles de Brosses ( 1709 ...
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... Nevertheless , the old guard was not without its innovators . The French Jesuit missionary Joseph - François Lafitau ( 1681-1746 ) drew upon his experiences among the Hurons and Iroquois to construct a strikingly original symbolic ...
... Nevertheless , the old guard was not without its innovators . The French Jesuit missionary Joseph - François Lafitau ( 1681-1746 ) drew upon his experiences among the Hurons and Iroquois to construct a strikingly original symbolic ...
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... Nevertheless , by the late 1770s it was clear that he had broken with traditional schemes of chronology with his estimate of about 75,000 years for the age of the cooling earth . Within the sphere of man's history , Buffon was more ...
... Nevertheless , by the late 1770s it was clear that he had broken with traditional schemes of chronology with his estimate of about 75,000 years for the age of the cooling earth . Within the sphere of man's history , Buffon was more ...
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... Nevertheless , recent scholarship reemphasises that racism was a consequence rather than a cause of slavery ; see D. B. Davis , ' Constructing race : a reflection ' , WMQ 3rd ser . 54 ( 1997 ) , 7-18 , which introduces a special issue ...
... Nevertheless , recent scholarship reemphasises that racism was a consequence rather than a cause of slavery ; see D. B. Davis , ' Constructing race : a reflection ' , WMQ 3rd ser . 54 ( 1997 ) , 7-18 , which introduces a special issue ...
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