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Britons: forging the nation, 1707-1837 : with a new preface by the author
Linda Colley
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements (page ix)
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Preface to the Second Pimlico Edition (page xi)
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Introduction (page 1)
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1 Protestants (page 11)
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A less than united kingdom (page 11)
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The struggles of God's elect (page 18)
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Jerusalem the golden (page 30)
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A polity by force of faith (page 43)
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2 Profits (page 55)
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Land, trade, war and empire (page 56)
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Jacobitism and the economics of loyalty (page 71)
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Investing in the nation (page 85)
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The price of it all (page 98)
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3 Peripheries (page 101)
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New landmarks (page 101)
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John Wilkes and Englishness (page 105)
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A Scottish empire? (page 117)
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America and the revolution in British sensibilities (page 132)
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4 Dominance (page 147)
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Crisis of an order (page 149)
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The making of the British ruling class (page 155)
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The cultural reconstruction of an elite (page 164)
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Heroes of their own epic (page 177)
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5 Majesty (page 195)
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A royal culture confined (page 196)
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Why George III was different (page 204)
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The mechanics of royal celebration (page 217)
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Meanings and magic (page 228)
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6 Womanpower (page 237)
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Beating against the bonds of womanhood (page 238)
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War and the sexes (page 250)
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Making separate spheres work for women (page 262)
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A woman's place is in the nation (page 273)
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7 Manpower (page 283)
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A nation in arms (page 285)
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Who was willing to fight? (page 291)
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The private reasons why (page 300)
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The politics of popular commitment (page 308)
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8 Victories? (page 321)
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Catholic emancipation and division (page 324)
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Parliamentary reform and compromise (page 334)
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Slavery, freedom and consensus (page 350)
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A nation redefined and undefined (page 361)
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Conclusions (page 364)
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Appendices (page 376)
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The geography of loyalty in 1745 (page 376)
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Men at arms throughout Great Britain, May 1804 (page 378)
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Volunteers and their chosen sphere of action in 1798 (page 382)
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Notes (page 385)
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Index (page 414)
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Photograph Acknowledgements (page 430)
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Published: 2003
Publisher: Pimlico
- 9780712697859 (paper)