Tony Claydon

Europe and the Making of England, 1660-1760

Buch

Wide-ranging and original re-interpretation of English history and national identity during the vital century (1660–1760) in which the country emerged as the leading world power and developed its peculiarly free political culture. Disputing the insular and xenophobic image of the English in the period, and denying that this was an age of secularisation, Tony Claydon demonstrates instead the country's active participation in a 'protestant international' and its deep attachment to a European 'Christendom'. He shows how these outward-looking identities shaped key developments by generating a profound sense of duty to God's foreign faithful. The… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-521-85004-9
EAN: 9780521850049
Produktnummer: 2876005
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 386 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.7 cm 744 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 744

Über den Autor

Tony Claydon is Senior Lecturer in History at the School of History and Welsh History, University of Wales, Bangor. His previous publications include William III and the Godly Revolution (1996) and, as co-editor, Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, 1650-1850 (1998).