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British Identities before Nationalism
Colin Kidd
其他書名
Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 1999-03-13
主題
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Modern / General
ISBN
1139425722
9781139425728
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=I2EIlJISeUMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were confessional, institutional and juridical. Colin Kidd's point of departure is the widely shared orthodox belief that the whole world had been peopled by the offspring of Noah. In addition, Kidd probes inconsistencies in national myths of origin and ancient constitutional claims, and considers points of contact which existed in the early modern era between ethnic identities which are now viewed as antithetical, including those of Celts and Saxons. He also argues that Gothicism qualified the notorious Francophobia of eighteenth-century Britons. A wide-ranging example of the new British history, this study draws upon evidence from England, Scotland, Ireland and America, while remaining alert to European comparisons and influences.