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

This collection makes a special contribution to the development of the "new British history"—which seeks to explore in a comparative framework the history of the national entities that constitute the two islands of the Atlantic Archipelago. The contributors represent the four constituent national communities, and their essays provide a further corrective to the Anglocentric bias of traditional British history. Generally the book sheds light on current debates concerning "the Union" and devo...