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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... politics , focused on the institutions of the polis , to an obsession , both romantic and scientific , with ethnic and racial categories.R 7 one extreme instrumentalists reduce identity to political and economic choices. The various ...
... politics , focused on the institutions of the polis , to an obsession , both romantic and scientific , with ethnic and racial categories.R 7 one extreme instrumentalists reduce identity to political and economic choices. The various ...
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... political and economic choices . For example , Paul Brass sees ethnic identity formation ' as a process created in the dynamics of elite competition within the bound- aries determined by political and economic realities ' . 12 Some ...
... political and economic choices . For example , Paul Brass sees ethnic identity formation ' as a process created in the dynamics of elite competition within the bound- aries determined by political and economic realities ' . 12 Some ...
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... political doctrine built upon three basic assertions ' , namely , that ' there exists a nation with an explicit and pecu- liar character ' , that ' the interests and values of this nation take priority over all other interests and ...
... political doctrine built upon three basic assertions ' , namely , that ' there exists a nation with an explicit and pecu- liar character ' , that ' the interests and values of this nation take priority over all other interests and ...
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... political nations . While a crude xenophobia was , as a number of studies have shown , a potent factor in British popular culture during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , 24 the pattern within the mainstream of political ...
... political nations . While a crude xenophobia was , as a number of studies have shown , a potent factor in British popular culture during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , 24 the pattern within the mainstream of political ...
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