British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of Britain, 1533–1707

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511660191

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 demands made upon it. Various and competing concepts of Britishness are examined, from the Henrician legislation which united Wales with England and which created the kingdom of Ireland, to the Act of Union of the realms of England and Scotland. The chequered history of the consciousness of Britain as a polity which embraced the united kingdoms is discussed in relation to the distinctive national identities of the constituent countries, and the question of the impact of 'Britain' on English policy-making under the Tudor, Stuart and the first Hanoverian monarchs is addressed. The puzzling resistance of the Irish to assimilation in contrast to the docility of the Welsh and - eventually - of the Scots is also explored.

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Notes on the contributors
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Preface
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Introduction
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1 - Tudor Wales, national identity and the British inheritance
pp 8-42
- By Peter Roberts
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2 - The English Reformation and identity formation in Ireland and Wales
pp 43-111
- By Brendan Bradshaw
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3 - Faith, culture and sovereignty: Irish nationality and its development, 1558–1625
pp 112-139
- By Marc Caball
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4 - From English to British literature: John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen
pp 140-158
- By Andrew Hadfield
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5 - The British problem in three tracts on Ireland by Spenser, Bacon and Milton
pp 159-184
- By Willy Maley
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6 - James Ussher and the creation of an Irish protestant identity
pp 185-212
- By Alan Ford
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7 - Seventeenth-century Wales: definition and identity
pp 213-235
- By Philip Jenkins
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8 - Scottish identity in the seventeenth century
pp 236-258
- By Keith M. Brown
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9 - The Gaidhealtachd and the emergence of the Scottish Highlands
pp 259-300
- By Jane Dawson
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10 - ‘No remedy more proper’: Anglo-Irish unionism before 1707
pp 301-320
- By Jim Smyth
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11 - Protestantism, constitutionalism and British identity under the later Stuarts
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- By Colin Kidd
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Notes on the contributors
pp ix-x

Preface
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-7

1 - Tudor Wales, national identity and the British inheritance
pp 8-42

2 - The English Reformation and identity formation in Ireland and Wales
pp 43-111

3 - Faith, culture and sovereignty: Irish nationality and its development, 1558–1625
pp 112-139

4 - From English to British literature: John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen
pp 140-158

5 - The British problem in three tracts on Ireland by Spenser, Bacon and Milton
pp 159-184

6 - James Ussher and the creation of an Irish protestant identity
pp 185-212

7 - Seventeenth-century Wales: definition and identity
pp 213-235

8 - Scottish identity in the seventeenth century
pp 236-258

9 - The Gaidhealtachd and the emergence of the Scottish Highlands
pp 259-300

10 - ‘No remedy more proper’: Anglo-Irish unionism before 1707
pp 301-320

11 - Protestantism, constitutionalism and British identity under the later Stuarts
pp 321-342

Index
pp 343-354

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