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Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe in the Eighteenth Century - Similarities, Connections, Identities (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,761
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Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe in the Eighteenth Century - Similarities, Connections, Identities (Hardcover): Stephen...

Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe in the Eighteenth Century - Similarities, Connections, Identities (Hardcover)

Stephen Conway

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Britain's separateness from the rest of Europe is often taken as read. For generations, historians have presented Britain as exceptional and different. In recent years an emphasis on the Atlantic and imperial aspects of British history, and on the importance of the nation and national identity, has made Britain and Ireland seem even more distant from the neighbouring Continent.
Stephen Conway's study offers a different perspective on eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland's relationship with continental Europe. It acknowledges areas of difference and distinctiveness, but points to areas of similarity. It accepts that both Britain and Ireland were part of an Atlantic and wider imperial world, but highlights their under-recognized connections with the rest of Europe. And, perhaps most ambitiously of all, it suggests that if the British and Irish thought and acted in national terms, they were also able, in the appropriate circumstances, to see themselves as Europeans.
Other historians have opened up parts of this subject, presenting a more rounded picture than exceptionalist narratives allow, stressing convergence rather than divergence, establishing important connections and exploring their ramifications; but none have attempted such a panoramic view. Conway presents a case for our regarding eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland as integral parts of Europe, and for our appreciating that this was the perspective of many of the British and Irish at the time.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2011
First published: May 2011
Authors: Stephen Conway
Dimensions: 240 x 163 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921085-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
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LSN: 0-19-921085-3
Barcode: 9780199210855

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