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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... scholarly approaches in history and the social sciences , that nationalism is a modern invention . However , no single school of modernists monopolises the field , in large part because of the chasm of disagreement over the relative ...
... scholarly approaches in history and the social sciences , that nationalism is a modern invention . However , no single school of modernists monopolises the field , in large part because of the chasm of disagreement over the relative ...
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... scholars have staked out markedly differ- ent positions , though their basic chronologies are similar , with the late eighteenth century identified as the crucial watershed . Isaiah Berlin re- cognised the rise of nationalism as a by ...
... scholars have staked out markedly differ- ent positions , though their basic chronologies are similar , with the late eighteenth century identified as the crucial watershed . Isaiah Berlin re- cognised the rise of nationalism as a by ...
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... scholars , including Eugene Kamenka , have fo- cused more predictably on the French Revolution as the spawning ground for nationalist doctrines of popular sovereignty . This era has also attracted considerable attention from scholars ...
... scholars , including Eugene Kamenka , have fo- cused more predictably on the French Revolution as the spawning ground for nationalist doctrines of popular sovereignty . This era has also attracted considerable attention from scholars ...
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... scholars are in agree- ment about the basic constitution of nationalist thought . John Breuilly defines nationalist ... scholarly consensus about the recent provenance of nation- alism , I found myself preoccupied with the puzzle of how ...
... scholars are in agree- ment about the basic constitution of nationalist thought . John Breuilly defines nationalist ... scholarly consensus about the recent provenance of nation- alism , I found myself preoccupied with the puzzle of how ...
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... scholars began to collect the flood of information on the pagan religions of Asia and America in compendia of the world's religions , a new genre of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , and then to construct systems of historical ...
... scholars began to collect the flood of information on the pagan religions of Asia and America in compendia of the world's religions , a new genre of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , and then to construct systems of historical ...
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