Britain, Ireland and the world. The island race : Captain Cook, protestant evangelicalism and the construction of English national identity, 1760-1800 / Kathleen Wilson -- A transatlantic perspective : protestantism and identities in mid-nineteenth-century Britain and the United States / John Wolffe.
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Introduction. The trials of the chosen peoples : recent interpretations of protestantism and national identity in Britain and Ireland / Tony Claydon and Ian McBride -- England. 'I love my King and my Country, but a Roman catholic I hate' : anti-catholicism, xenophobia and national identiry in eithteenth-century England / Colin Haydon -- Confessional state or elect nation? : religion and identity in eighteenth-century England / Jeremy Black -- 'To protect English liberties' : the English nationalist revolution of 1688-1689 / Steven Pincus -- A history of variations : the identity of the eighteenth-century church of England / Brian Young -- Britain and Ireland. The British dimension, religion and the shaping of political identities during the reign of Charles II / Tim Harris -- The bible and national identity in the British Isles, c. 1650-c. 1750 / Scott Mandelbrote -- Protestantism, presbyterianism and national identity in eighteenth-century Scottish history / David Allan -- Protestantism, ethnicity and Irish identities, l660-1760 / Toby Barnard -- 'The common name of Irishman' : protestantism and patriotism in eighteenth-century England / Ian McBride.
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"This volume traces the complex contribution which protestantism made to national identity in the British Isles between the Stuart and the Victorian age. It therefore examines an essential, if ambiguous, foundation of British patriotism in the period when the United Kingdom was formed and emerged as a world power." "Often challenging existing work, the essays both question whether nationalism was a secular and 'modern' phenomenon, and ask whether protestantism could support any simple vision of a united, imperial, and 'elect' Britain. Covering a wide variety of subjects, the authors show that whilst the reformed faith was always central to 'British' self-awareness, it could also divide the peoples of Britain and Ireland, could cast doubt on their greatness and could dissolve any insistence on the uniqueness of these nations."--Jacket.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Nationalism-- Religious aspects-- Christianity-- History of doctrines-- 17th century.
Nationalism-- Religious aspects-- Christianity-- History of doctrines-- 18th century.
Nationalism-- Religious aspects-- Christianity-- History of doctrines-- 19th century.
Protestantism-- British Isles-- History-- 17th century.
Protestantism-- British Isles-- History-- 18th century.
Protestantism-- British Isles-- History-- 19th century.
Christianisme et politique-- Histoire-- 17e siècle.
Christianisme et politique-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
Christianisme et politique-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.