The Making of British Nationality

What makes for a seminal book? It must be excellent enough to excite admiration, original enough to introduce new perspectives, and problematic enough to elicit constructive criticism. It should raise new questions, but provide the kind of provisional, provocative answers that will serve as a stimulus to future work. Linda Colley's Britons has been such a book. When it appeared, in 1992, Modern British social history was in a state of crisis, reeling from a decade of largely negative, deconstructive critiques. Class, which had been its central category of analysis, was being dismissed in a flurry of vehement manifestoes, none of which offered any plausible alternatives.1 In the midst of this dispiriting confusion, Professor Colley boldly offered a new paradigm

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• Remembering and Forgetting the Scottish Highlands

  Open Access•Onni Gust•Journal of British Studies•2013

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• British Attitudes to the French Revolution

  Open Access•Emma Vincent Macleod•The Historical Journal•2007

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• The sense of the people

  Kathleen Wilson•The sense of the people•1995

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• Making of the English Working Class

  E P Thompson•Making of the English Working Class•2013

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• Customs in common

  E P Thompson•Customs in common•1991

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• The imaginary discontents of social history

  Patrick Joyce•Social History•1993

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• History and Post-Modernism

  C Kelly, Patrick Joyce•Past & Present•1991

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