Great Britain, 1516-1776 : essays in atlantic history
The articles and essays in this volume represent the results of a decade's work on British history as a set of interlocking national histories, as a transnational history linked to the history of continental Europe and as an international history within the Atlantic world.
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Collected studies series, CS796
pag. var. ; 23 cm.
9780860789420, 086078942X
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Contents: Introduction; Part 1 The Historiography of Greater Britain: Greater Britain: a useful category of historical analysis?; Three concepts of Atlantic history; The New World and British historical thought: from Richard Hakluyt to William Robertson. Part 2 Languages of Empire: Literature and empire; The Cromwellian Protectorate and the languages of empire; John Milton: poet against empire; Empire and liberty: a republican dilemma. Part 3 Scotland, Ireland and Greater Britain: Making the empire British: Scotland in the Atlantic world 1542-1707; The political economy of Britain and Ireland after the Glorious Revolution; The Scottish vision of empire: intellectual origins of the Darien venture. Part 4 The Rise and Fall of Greater Britain: A patriot for whom? The afterlives of Bolingbroke's patriot king; The British conception of empire in the 18th century; The American Revolution: the last war of religion?; Index.
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