British Identities Before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600 1800

by Colin Kidd

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521024536
• ISBN13: 9780521024532
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"