Britons : forging the nation, 1707-1837 / Linda Colley.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Colley, Linda
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	National characteristics, British > History. Nationalism > Great Britain > History. Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century. Great Britain > Civilization > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

Protestants. A less than united kingdom; The struggles of God's elect; Jerusalem the golden; A polity by force of faith
Profits. Land, trade, war and empire; Jacobitism and the economics of loyalty; Investing in the nation; The price of it all
Peripheries. New landmarks; John Wilkes and Englishness; A Scottish empire?; America and the revolution in British sensibilities
Dominance. Crisis of an order; The making of the British ruling class; The cultural reconstruction of an elite; Heroes of their own epic
Majesty. A royal culture confined; Why George III was different; The mechanics of royal celebration; Meanings and magic
Womanpower. Beating against the bonds of womanhood; War and the sexes; making separate spheres work for women; A woman's place is in the nation
Manpower. A nation in arms; Who was willing to fight?; The private reasons why; The politics of popular commitment
Victories? Catholic emancipation and division; Parliamentary reform and compromise; Slavery, freedom and consensus; A nation redefined and undefined
Appendices. The Geography of Loyalty in 1745; Men at Arms throughout Great Britain, May 1804; Volunteers and their Chosen Sphere of Action in 1798.

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