Inventing and resisting Britain : cultural identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789

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Label

Inventing and resisting Britain : cultural identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789

Title remainder

cultural identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685-1789

Statement of responsibility

Murray G.H. Pittock

Creator

• Pittock, Murray

Subject

• Civilization
• England
• England -- Civilization -- 18th century
• Great Britain
• Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century
• History
• Ireland
• Ireland -- Civilization -- 18th century
• National characteristics, British
• National characteristics, British -- History -- 17th century
• National characteristics, British -- History -- 18th century
• National characteristics, Irish
• National characteristics, Irish -- History -- 17th century
• National characteristics, Irish -- History -- 18th century
• Scotland
• Scotland -- History -- 18th century
• Wales
• Wales -- History -- 18th century
• 1600 - 1799

Genre

• History

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

Member of

• British studies series

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

DA485

LC item number

.P54 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography