In justly celebrated recent publications, Linda Colley has argued that the experience of
waging war during the eighteenth century helped to develop a growing sense of British …

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY armed conflicts have been identified by some historians as one of
the ingredients promoting a popular sense of Britishness. Linda Colley, in particular, has …

This is an interpretative study of the idea of Britain, examining the transformation of a
sectarian concept into an imperial ideology forged during a period of sustained warfare in …

It has been more than a decade since Benedict Anderson urged us to consider the nation a
particular kind of cultural artefact and to study national communities in terms of the style in …

During the mighty and prolonged struggles centred on Revolutionary and Napoleonic
France, a new era in European warfare was opened. After 1792 what had been the 'wars of …

The historical resonances of the concept of'Britain'for the communities of the Atlantic
Archipelago in the early modern period are explored here in terms of the ideological …

Examinations of national identity and nationalism have been and remain a staple of
historical research for medievalists and modernists alike. Works have considered the …

How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this prize-winning
book, Linda Colley combines imperial, political, social, and cultural history to analyze the …

By the end of the eighteenth century Britain was a world power on a scale that none of her
European rivals could match. Not only did she rule a great empire, but the reach of …

This is a timely exploration of national identity in Great Britain over nine hundred years of
history. Our attitudes to the nation state are changing-national assemblies in Scotland and …