A comprehensive coverage of ethnic and national identities in the British world between 1600 and 1790.
AcknowledgementsNoteList of abbreviations1Introduction12Prologue: the Mosaic foundations of early modern European identity93Ethnic theology and British identities344Whose ancient constitution? Ethnicity and the English past, 1600-1800755Britons, Saxons and the Anglican quest for legitimacy996The Gaelic dilemma in early modern Scottish political culture1237The weave of Irish identities, 1600-17901468Constructing the pre-romantic Celt1859Mapping a Gothic Europe21110The varieties of Gothicism in the British Atlantic world, 1689-180025011Conclusion287Index292