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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... according to Gellner , changed all this . The imperatives of commercial and industrial mobilisation dictated the cre- ation of large pools of numerate and literate employees who could facili- tate the requisite calculations ...
... according to Gellner , changed all this . The imperatives of commercial and industrial mobilisation dictated the cre- ation of large pools of numerate and literate employees who could facili- tate the requisite calculations ...
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... According to Smith's formulation , the pre - modern ' ethnies ' out of which many nationalisms emerged were ' constituted , not by lines of physical descent , but ... by the lines of cultural affinity embodied in distinctive myths ...
... According to Smith's formulation , the pre - modern ' ethnies ' out of which many nationalisms emerged were ' constituted , not by lines of physical descent , but ... by the lines of cultural affinity embodied in distinctive myths ...
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... according to another Norwegian anthropologist , Thomas Hylland Eriksen , such boundaries are themselves unstable : ethnic identities are both ' situational ' and ' negotiated ' , sometimes undercommunicated , sometimes overcommunicated ...
... according to another Norwegian anthropologist , Thomas Hylland Eriksen , such boundaries are themselves unstable : ethnic identities are both ' situational ' and ' negotiated ' , sometimes undercommunicated , sometimes overcommunicated ...
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... According to the logic of Mosaic history the distant ancestors of pagan peoples must at some stage have been the bearers of the patriarchal revelation . Of necessity , theologians constructed a history of gentile corruption as a central ...
... According to the logic of Mosaic history the distant ancestors of pagan peoples must at some stage have been the bearers of the patriarchal revelation . Of necessity , theologians constructed a history of gentile corruption as a central ...
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... according to the similitude of the transgression of Adam , who is the type of the future . La Peyrère argued that the law had come into the world with Adam , and that at this stage sin , which was already in existence , took on moral ...
... according to the similitude of the transgression of Adam , who is the type of the future . La Peyrère argued that the law had come into the world with Adam , and that at this stage sin , which was already in existence , took on moral ...
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