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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... from English sources . In particular , I have eschewed the unfamiliar early modern rendering of Britons as ' Britains ' . Abbreviations BJECS British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Blackstone, Commentaries William vii Note.
... from English sources . In particular , I have eschewed the unfamiliar early modern rendering of Britons as ' Britains ' . Abbreviations BJECS British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Blackstone, Commentaries William vii Note.
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... particular , conceive of their ethnic relationship to the rest of Europe ? Furthermore , was the familiar antithesis of Celt and Saxon part of the early modern world view ? My initial inspiration was derived not so much from the ...
... particular , conceive of their ethnic relationship to the rest of Europe ? Furthermore , was the familiar antithesis of Celt and Saxon part of the early modern world view ? My initial inspiration was derived not so much from the ...
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... particular to the evolution within Kantian and post - Kantian circles of the values of autonomy and self - determina- tion . However , other scholars , including Eugene Kamenka , have fo- cused more predictably on the French Revolution ...
... particular to the evolution within Kantian and post - Kantian circles of the values of autonomy and self - determina- tion . However , other scholars , including Eugene Kamenka , have fo- cused more predictably on the French Revolution ...
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... particular sphere , our minds are still to a considerable degree in thrall to nineteenth - century constructions of ethnic identity . An attempt to introduce the subject of early modern ethnic constructions by way of Mosaic history ...
... particular sphere , our minds are still to a considerable degree in thrall to nineteenth - century constructions of ethnic identity . An attempt to introduce the subject of early modern ethnic constructions by way of Mosaic history ...
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... particular chronological jungle in a further treatise Thesaurus temporum ( 1606 ) , but scholarly integrity impeded his progress . Scaliger came to the conclusion that the earliest Egyptian dynasties did indeed . predate the era not ...
... particular chronological jungle in a further treatise Thesaurus temporum ( 1606 ) , but scholarly integrity impeded his progress . Scaliger came to the conclusion that the earliest Egyptian dynasties did indeed . predate the era not ...
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