The making of the United Kingdom, 1660-1800 : state, religion and identity in Britain and Ireland / Jim Smyth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smyth, Jim.

Series:

Insight guides. British Isles series

British Isles series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Irish.

History.

National characteristics, British.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1660-1714.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century.

Ireland--Politics and government--17th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--Politics and government--18th century.

Great Britain--Church history--17th century.

Church history.

Great Britain--Church history--18th century.

National characteristics, British--History.

National characteristics, Irish--History.

Ireland--Church history.

Great Britain--History--1660-1714.

Great Britain--History--1714-1837.

Local Subjects:

Great Britain--History--1660-1714.

Great Britain--History--1714-1837.

Physical Description:

xv, 252 pages, 7 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2001.

Summary:

The histories of the "three kingdoms" or "four nations" that eventually became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 are distinct but not separate. From the Restoration of Charles II to the Act of Union with Ireland, Jim Smyth interweaves the different national stories into an authoritative account of the creation of the modern British state. Including discussion of society and economy alongside analysis of contemporary politics and the religious question, Smyth shows how the experiences of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland were shaped by unity as well as diversity. In an age of anxiety about national identity and the future of the United Kingdom, this is a timely and important book.

Contents:

1 The Restoration: four nations in search of a king 1

2 Three kingdoms, one Church? 19

The ecclesiastical settlement: England and Wales 23

Ireland 26

Scotland 29

3 Disaffection and dissent: the heroic age 34

Quakers 35

'The Lord's people' and 'the Good Old Cause' 37

Covenanters 40

Protestant dissent in the reign of James II and VII 49

4 The Catholic problem 61

Anti-popery and the Popish Plot 62

Catholic Ireland: revanche and defeat 65

5 Constitutional relations, national identities, union 77

John Bull's other kingdoms during the Restoration 78

Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Scottish relations and the revolution settlement 87

The making of the union 95

6 Jacobitism and the British state 108

The first phase 108

Riots, rebellion and conspiracy: the '15 and after 116

Challenge and consolidation: the union, the House of Hanover and the '45 123

7 Convergence and divergence: identity formation and politics in the eighteenth century 135

Divergence: Ireland 136

Convergence: Scotland 144

English nationalism, British empire 153

Britishness and empire 160

8 Catholics, Protestants and Dissenters: religion and politics in the eighteenth century 170

Orthodoxy: the Church of England 171

Heterodoxy, subscription and dissent 174

'Glad tidings of salvation': Methodism and revival 183

The return of the Catholic Question 186

Radicalism and reaction: the 1790s 194

9 Uniting the kingdoms: the British-Irish union 205

The eighteenth-century discursive background to the union 206

Crisis and union: 1790-1800 210.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-235) and index.

ISBN:

0582089980

OCLC:

46984072