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Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837, Second Edition (Yale Nota Bene)

1 review
Linda Colley

Yale University Press, 2005

A work of professional ingenuity and scholarly courage
Linda Colley's Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 leans heavily on the understanding of a nation as an imagined political community of culturally and ethnically diverse peoples. Once the reader accepts this premise, Colley's central argument that religion and war served as primary movers in the creation of the British nation becomes palpable. Under this guise, Colley credits the Act of ...

Britons
Linda Colley

Random House Value Publishing, 1994

A major contribution to an understanding of Britain?s past and to the shape and survival of Britain and its institutions in the future. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837
Linda Colley

Yale University Press, 2009

How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire. Lavishly illustrated and powerful, Britons remains a major contribution to our understanding of Britain?s past, and continues to influence ongoing controversies about this polity?s survival ...

Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837

4 reviews
Linda Colley

Yale University Press, 1992

Excellent book, but flawed in its analysis
Linda Colley demonstrates her abilities as a top-shelf social historian in "Britons." Her command of widely diverse source material is remarkable--her presentation of popular ballads, cartoons, and broadsheets is both delightful and interesting. However, in her rush to demonstrate the consensual nature of "Britishness," she glosses over some very difficult issues (like the deliberately omitted ...

Captives

7 reviews
Linda Colley

Pimlico, 2003

"Airbrushed from history . . . "
Once, i hoped for a truly comprehensive survey of the British Empire and its global impact. This excellent book is almost the response i wished for. Colley examines "a quarter of a millennium" in an overview of three stages of Britain's expansionist adventure. From the start, she reminds us, Britain's miniscule population and limited resources made it an unlikely candidate for global ...

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

6 reviews
Linda Colley

Pantheon, 2007

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
Being a history buff, I was particularly intrigued by (1) the research that Colley put into this, and (2) the actual description of March's happenings. It is an easy read if you don't mind some extraneous detail. I heartily recommend it to others interested in obscure history.

The lures of empire: present, past, and future.: An article from: Queen's Quarterly
Linda Colley

Thomson Gale, 2005

This digital document is an article from Queen's Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 5105 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: The lures of empire: present, past, and future. ...

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
Linda Colley

Random House Inc, 2007

In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-60
Linda Colley

Cambridge University Press, 1982

In English history the years between 1714 and 1760 are peculiar in two ways. They have received only scant attention from historians, and they witnessed the exclusion of the tory sector of the nation's landed elite from all central as well as from prime local offices. In this book Linda Colley explores the fate of the tory party which has dominated both Parliament and the constituencies throughout of the reigns of William III and Anne. She ...

Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh, The: A Woman in World History
Linda Colley

HarperPerennial, 2008

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