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Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837.
Eliga H. Gould,Linda Colley +1 more
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In this paper, Colley explains how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the 1707 Act of Union, and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade and imperial expansion.Abstract:
How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this prize-winning book, Linda Colley explains how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the 1707 Act of Union, and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade and imperial expansion. Here too are numerous individual Britons - heroes and politicians like Nelson and Pitt; bourgeois patriots like Thomas Coram and John Wilkes; artists, writers and musicians who helped to forge our image of Britishness; as well as many ordinary men and women whose stories have never previously been told. Powerful and timely, this lavishly illustrated book is a major contribution to our understanding of Britain's past and to the growing debate about the shape and survival of Britain and its institutions in the future. \"The most dazzling and comprehensive study of a national identity yet to appear in any language.\" Tom Nairn, Scotsman \"A very fine book ...challenging, fascinating, enormously well-informed.\" John Barrell, London Review of Books \"Wise and bracing history ...which provides an historical context for debate about British citizenship barely begun.\" Michael Ratcliffe, Observer \"Controversial, entertaining and alarmingly topical ...a delight to read.\"Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph \"Uniting sharp analysis, pungent prose and choice examples, Colley probes beneath the skin and lays bare the anatomy of nationhood.\" Roy Porter, New Statesman & Societyread more
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Guernsey, 1814-1914 : migration in a modernising society
TL;DR: Guernsey is a densely populated island lying 27 miles off the Normandy coast as mentioned in this paper, whose only town, St Peter Port, had during the previous century developed a thriving commercial sector with strong links to England, whose cultural influence it began to absorb.
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Divided sovereignty : empire and nation in the making of modern Britain
TL;DR: The British state of the interwar years decentralised its decision-making and embedded itself firmly in new multilateral networks as mentioned in this paper, and only then within a context of multiple (principally Atlantic and European) political identities.
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Outsiders in the land of their birth: Exogamy, citizenship, and identity in war and peace
TL;DR: For example, between 1870 and 1945 some three dozen widows from the Tyne port of South Shields applied for and received naturalization as British subjects, most of them during the First World War as mentioned in this paper, with only two exceptions, the women had all been born and raised in Britain, most within a few miles of the town they lived in.
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Southern Irish Protestants: An Example of De-Ethnicisation?
Joseph Ruane,David Butler +1 more
TL;DR: This paper argued that treating the past British dimension of Irish Protestant identity as ethnic or national misconceives it and overlooks the historically deep Irish context of Protestant identity, and that the neglect of the specifically Irish roots of residual tensions in Catholic-Protestant relationships.