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Inventing and resisting Britain : cultural identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789, Murray G.H. Pittock

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Summary
  • Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789 tells the story of the birth of Britain and its development in the eighteenth century. Looking at England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales in turn, and at issues such as religion, Jacobitism, nationalism, feminism, money, the British Empire, travel, Romanticism, and the idea of history, it asks: How did Britain come into being? How successful was it? What were its problems? How do they remain relevant today?
  • Challenging the idea of a unified British identity in the eighteenth century, the book suggests that a lack of understanding of British diversity has helped to create tensions in Britain in the twentieth century. It explores the idea of dual identity - how far could people be both Irish and British - and religious, gender and non-national political differences within Britain, using the past to shed a fresh light on contemporary UK and Irish identity
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
ix, 189
Contents
  • Inventing and resisting Britain. England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
  • Scotland and Britain
  • Political symbolism in literature and religion
  • Marginal societies in Britain
  • Rhetoric of Britain
  • Blest paper credit: financing the revolution. Financial revolution
  • Politics and the price of things
  • Nationality, religion and money
  • Economic woman
  • Property is theft?
  • Crown culture and counter-culture. Religion and politics: change and continuity
  • Whigs, Tories and Jacobites
  • Jacobite culture
  • Folk culture and rebellion
  • Regional societies
  • Enlightenment and Empire. One society? Britain in 1760
  • Scottish enlightenment: cultural development
  • Scottish enlightenment: cultural impact
  • Idea of history
  • Exploring empire
  • Orc and the Primitives. Primitivism: the case of James MacPherson
  • Politics of primitivism
  • Revolution in writing
  • One nation?
Isbn
9780312165765
Instance
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Inventing and resisting Britain : cultural identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789
Title
Inventing and resisting Britain
Title remainder
cultural identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789
Statement of responsibility
Murray G.H. Pittock
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Subject
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Language
eng
Summary
  • Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789 tells the story of the birth of Britain and its development in the eighteenth century. Looking at England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales in turn, and at issues such as religion, Jacobitism, nationalism, feminism, money, the British Empire, travel, Romanticism, and the idea of history, it asks: How did Britain come into being? How successful was it? What were its problems? How do they remain relevant today?
  • Challenging the idea of a unified British identity in the eighteenth century, the book suggests that a lack of understanding of British diversity has helped to create tensions in Britain in the twentieth century. It explores the idea of dual identity - how far could people be both Irish and British - and religious, gender and non-national political differences within Britain, using the past to shed a fresh light on contemporary UK and Irish identity
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Pittock, Murray
Index
index present
LC call number
DA485
LC item number
.P54 1997
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • Great Britain
  • Scotland
  • England
  • Ireland
  • Wales
  • England
  • Great Britain
  • Ireland
  • Scotland
  • Wales
  • National characteristics, British
  • National characteristics, British
  • National characteristics, Irish
  • National characteristics, Irish
  • Civilization
  • National characteristics, British
  • National characteristics, Irish
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Inventing and resisting Britain : cultural identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789, Murray G.H. Pittock
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-180) and index
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Inventing and resisting Britain. England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales -- Scotland and Britain -- Political symbolism in literature and religion -- Marginal societies in Britain -- Rhetoric of Britain -- Blest paper credit: financing the revolution. Financial revolution -- Politics and the price of things -- Nationality, religion and money -- Economic woman -- Property is theft? -- Crown culture and counter-culture. Religion and politics: change and continuity -- Whigs, Tories and Jacobites -- Jacobite culture -- Folk culture and rebellion -- Regional societies -- Enlightenment and Empire. One society? Britain in 1760 -- Scottish enlightenment: cultural development -- Scottish enlightenment: cultural impact -- Idea of history -- Exploring empire -- Orc and the Primitives. Primitivism: the case of James MacPherson -- Politics of primitivism -- Revolution in writing -- One nation?
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
ix, 189
Isbn
9780312165765
Lccn
96041005
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)35280779
  • (OCoLC)ocm35280779
Label
Inventing and resisting Britain : cultural identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789, Murray G.H. Pittock
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-180) and index
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Inventing and resisting Britain. England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales -- Scotland and Britain -- Political symbolism in literature and religion -- Marginal societies in Britain -- Rhetoric of Britain -- Blest paper credit: financing the revolution. Financial revolution -- Politics and the price of things -- Nationality, religion and money -- Economic woman -- Property is theft? -- Crown culture and counter-culture. Religion and politics: change and continuity -- Whigs, Tories and Jacobites -- Jacobite culture -- Folk culture and rebellion -- Regional societies -- Enlightenment and Empire. One society? Britain in 1760 -- Scottish enlightenment: cultural development -- Scottish enlightenment: cultural impact -- Idea of history -- Exploring empire -- Orc and the Primitives. Primitivism: the case of James MacPherson -- Politics of primitivism -- Revolution in writing -- One nation?
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
ix, 189
Isbn
9780312165765
Lccn
96041005
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)35280779
  • (OCoLC)ocm35280779

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