British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800
This book examines the status and uses of ethnicity in political debate during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that immediately preceded the onset of modern racialist and nationalist thinking. Ranging widely across the political cultures of England, Scotland, Ireland and revolutionary America, it also considers European influences and comparisons as well as engaging historically with current debates over nationalism and identity.
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A comprehensive coverage of ethnic and national identities in the British world between 1600 and 1790.
AcknowledgementsNoteList of abbreviations1Introduction12Prologue: the Mosaic foundations of early modern European identity93Ethnic theology and British identities344Whose ancient constitution? Ethnicity and the English past, 1600-1800755Britons, Saxons and the Anglican quest for legitimacy996The Gaelic dilemma in early modern Scottish political culture1237The weave of Irish identities, 1600-17901468Constructing the pre-romantic Celt1859Mapping a Gothic Europe21110The varieties of Gothicism in the British Atlantic world, 1689-180025011Conclusion287Index292
