British Consciousness and Identity

Essays on the early modern period that make a special contribution to the development of the 'new British history'.

Preface; Introduction; 1. Tudor Wales, national identity and the British inheritance Peter Roberts; 2. The English Reformation and identity formation in Ireland and Wales Brendan Bradshaw; 3. Faith, culture and sovereignty: Irish nationality and its development, 1558¿1625 Marc Caball; 4. From English to British literature: John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene Andrew Hadfield; 5. The British problem in three tracts on Ireland by Spenser, Bacon and Milton Willy Maley; 6. James Ussher and the creation of an Irish Protestant identity Alan Ford; 7. Seventeenth-century Wales: definition and identity Philip Jenkins; 8. Scottish identity in the seventeenth century Keith M. Brown; 9. The gaidhealtachd and the emergence of the Scottish Highlands Jane Dawson; 10. Anglo-Irish unionist discourse, c.1656¿1707: from Harrington to Fletcher Jim Smyth; Protestantism, constitutionalism and British identity under the later Stuarts Colin Kidd.