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Authors: Colin Kidd
ISBN-13: 9780521024532, ISBN-10: 0521024536
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Colin Kidd

Book Synopsis

A comprehensive coverage of ethnic and national identities in the British world between 1600 and 1790.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Note
List of abbreviations
1Introduction1
2Prologue: the Mosaic foundations of early modern European identity9
3Ethnic theology and British identities34
4Whose ancient constitution? Ethnicity and the English past, 1600-180075
5Britons, Saxons and the Anglican quest for legitimacy99
6The Gaelic dilemma in early modern Scottish political culture123
7The weave of Irish identities, 1600-1790146
8Constructing the pre-romantic Celt185
9Mapping a Gothic Europe211
10The varieties of Gothicism in the British Atlantic world, 1689-1800250
11Conclusion287
Index292

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