Great Britain : identities, institutions, and the idea of Britishness /: identities, institutions, and the idea of Britishness. (1998)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Keith Robbins.
• Other Names: Robbins, Keith
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; List of Acknowledgements; Preface; Prologue; 1. The Ingredients Assemble; A question of pedigre; A pattern of island; Borders and boundarie; England and the Englis; The Normans and the English; Scotland and the Scots; Wales and the Welsh; The matter of Britain; Continuities and contrasts; 2. The Framework Established; Entire of itself?; Church and state; King and country; Parliament and people; On the edge of a new world?; Part 1: Great Britain -- Creation, Crisis, Consolidation C.1500-C.1750 3. Designs and Accidents: Making Great Britain c. 1500-c.1700England, Wales and Scotland in the sixteenth century; England and Scotland in the seventeenth century; 4. Precedents and Rights: The British Body Politic C.1500-C.1750; Crowns and constitutions; Tudor monarchy; Stuart monarchy; Parliament and the Tudors; Parliament and the Stuarts; Parliament and the Protectorate; Restoration and a national equilibrium?; 'Revolution'?; William and Mary, Anne and two Georges; The Jacobite question; Stability?; 5. Truth, Uniformity and Toleration: Making a British Compromise? c.1500-c.1750 Ecclesia AnglicanaA Welsh Ecclesia Anglicana?; Ecclesia Scoticana; Dissenters: Catholic and Protestant; Restorations; Equilibrium?; Compromise?; Liberty; 6. New World Power: A British Vision? C.1500-C.1750; Angles of approach; Interests: dynastic and national; Sea power; Europe: the seventeenth century; 'The world'; Comfortable identity?; Home fires; Part 2: Great Britain: World Power C.1745-C.1945; 7. Preservation and Progress: Representing the People c.1745-c.1845; Oligarchy to democracy; Kings; Reform or revolution?; Reform of the constitution c.1760-1832 Crisis of the ancien régime (1): the significance of 1832Crisis of the ancien régime (2): the repeal of the Corn Laws; 8. Preservation and Progress: Representing the People, c.1845-c.1945; The queen; Equipoise: Gladstone and Disraeli c.1845-1867; Mr Gladstone's history; Apocalypse?; First principles?; Chartism -- the road not taken; Democracy -- monster or miracle?; Mr Disraeli's history; Equilibrium or oblivion?; The franchise framework c.1868-1914; A Liberal era?; The Liberal mansion (1): Whigs, a wasting asset?; The Liberal mansion (2): men of business The Liberal mansion (3): a supply of conscienceConservative come-back (1): Disraelian apotheosis; Conservative come-back (2): gloom and doom; Sinister assault?; Breaking the domestic mould?; Strange death and constitutional crisis; Britain is best; Kings; Parties; 9. Pax Britannica: Domination and Decline c.1745-c.1945; The tie that binds?; Great Britain: world state?; Colonial British?; Anglo-Saxons all?; India: British?; 'More an Asiatic power than a European'?; 'Fundamental instincts'; An old-fashioned island fortress?; Talking of Castlereagh ...; Ideology and nation
• Publisher Details: London New York : Longman
• Publication Date: 1998
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 377 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 941; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; National characteristics, British -- History; Group identity -- Great Britain -- History; Ethnology -- Great Britain; Civilization; Ethnology; Group identity; National characteristics, British; Nationale identiteit; Great Britain - Civilization; HISTORY / General; Great Britain -- Civilization; Great Britain; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317901037; 1317901037
• Related ISBNs: 0582031389; 9780582031388; 0582031192; 9780582031197
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-355) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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