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How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this brilliant and wide-ranging book, Linda Colley explains how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the 1707 Act of Union, and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade and imperial expansion. Powerful and timely, this lavishly illustrated book is a major contribution to our understanding of Britain's past and to the growing debate about the shape and survival of Britain and its institutions in the future.
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‘A very fine book...challenging, fascinating, enormously well-informed.’ -- John Barrell, London Review of Books
‘Brilliant...rich and stimulating’ -- Hugo Young, Guardian
‘The most dazzling and comprehensive study of a national identity yet to appear in any language.’ -- Tom Nairn, Scotsman
‘Uniting sharp analysis, pungent prose and choice examples, Colley probes beneath the skin and lays bare the anatomy of nationhood.’ -- Roy Porter, New Statesman & Society
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‘Brilliant...rich and stimulating’ -- Hugo Young, Guardian
‘The most dazzling and comprehensive study of a national identity yet to appear in any language.’ -- Tom Nairn, Scotsman
‘Uniting sharp analysis, pungent prose and choice examples, Colley probes beneath the skin and lays bare the anatomy of nationhood.’ -- Roy Porter, New Statesman & Society
Linda Colley was born in Britain in 1949. After teaching at Cambridge, she moved to Yale University, and she is now back in England at the London School of Economics, where she is School Professor in History and Leverhulme Personal Research Professor. Her previous books are In Defiance of Oligarchy- The Tory Party 1714-1760 (1982) and Namier (1989). Captives will be published by Cape in September 2002.
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0712697853
- ISBN 13 9780712697859
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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