British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533-1707.Bradshaw, Brendan and Peter Roberts Sir Peter Geoffrey Roberts, 3rd Baronet (23 June 1912 – 22 July 1985) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Ecclesall. , eds. British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533-1707. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). , 1998. xii + 354pp. index. $69.95. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-521-43383-5. The concept of "Britain" in the early modern period is explored in these essays in terms of the ideological demands made upon it, and various concepts of "Britishness" are examined in the context of state formation. The special concern of the volume is with the "intellectual, cultural, linguistic and ideological dimensions of British history" in the early modern period. Fully indexed. Essays include: Peter Roberts, "Tudor Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. , national identity and the British inheritance"; Brendan Bradshaw, "The English Reformation The English Reformation refers to the series of events in sixteenth-century England by which the church in England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. and identity formation in Ireland and Wales"; Marc Caball, "Faith, culture and sovereignty: Irish nationality and its development, 1558-1625"; Andrew Hadfield, "From English to British literature: John Lyly's Euphues and Edmond Spenser's The Faerie Queen"; Willy Maley, "The British problem in three tracts on Ireland by Spenser, Bacon and Milton"; Alan Ford, "James Ussher and the creation of an Irish protestant identity"; Philip Jenkins, "Seventeenth-century Wales: definition and identity"; Keith M. Brown, "Scottish identity in the seventeenth century"; Jane Dawson, "The Gaidhealtachd and the emergence of the Scottish Highlands"; Jim Smyth, "'No remedy more proper': Anglo-Irish unionism before 1707"; Colin Kidd, "Protestantism, constitutionalism con·sti·tu·tion·al·ism n. 1. Government in which power is distributed and limited by a system of laws that must be obeyed by the rulers. 2. a. A constitutional system of government. b. and British identity under the later Stuarts." |
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