The Hanoverian dimension in British history, 1714-1837 / edited by Brendan Simms and Torsten Riotte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simms, Brendan, editor.

Riotte, Torsten, 1972- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hanover, House of.

Germans--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Germans.

Germans--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Great Britain--History--1714-1837.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Biography.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Germany.

Germany--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than 120 years (1714-1837) Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This made Britain a continental European state in many respects, and diluted her sense of insular apartness. The geopolitical focus of Britain was now as much on Germany, on the Elbe and the Weser as it was on the Channel or overseas. At the same time, the Hanoverian connection was a major and highly controversial factor in British high politics and popular political debate. This volume was the first systematically to explore the subject by a team of experts drawn from the UK, US and Germany. They integrate the burgeoning specialist literature on aspects of the Personal Union into the broader history of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Never before had the impact of the Hanoverian connection on British politics, monarchy and the public sphere, been so thoroughly investigated.

Contents:

Introduction. Hanover : the missing dimension / Brendan Simms

Hanoverian nexus : Walpole and the electorate / Jeremy Black

Pitt and Hanover / Brendan Simms

George III and Hanover / Torsten Riotte

The Hanoverian dimension in early nineteenth-century British politics / Christopher D. Thompson

The end of the dynastic union, 1815-1837 / Mijndert Bertram

The university of Göttingen and the personal union, 1737-1837 / Thomas Biskup

The confessional dimension / Andrew C. Thompson

Hanover and the public sphere / Bob Harris

Dynastic perspectives / Clarissa Campbell Orr

British maritime strategy and Hanover 1714-1763 / Richard Harding

Hanover in mid-eighteenth-century Franco-British geopolitics / H.M. Scott

Hanover and British republicanism / Nicholas B. Harding.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16330-7

1-280-75035-9

0-511-26998-6

0-511-26942-0

0-511-49693-1

0-511-26838-6

0-511-32054-X

0-511-26905-6

OCLC:

252534619