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The Hanoverian Dimension in British History 1714 1837
Author | : Brendan Simms,Torsten Riotte |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2007-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139461870 |
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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.
The Hanoverian Dimension in British History 1714 1837
Author | : Brendan Simms,Torsten Riotte |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2007-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521842220 |
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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.
The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History 1660 2000
Author | : William Mulligan,Brendan Simms |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2010-10-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230289628 |
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External challenges, strategic threats, and war have shaped the course of modern British history. This volume examines how Britain mobilized to meet these challenges and how developments in the constitution, state, public sphere, and economy were a response to foreign policy issues from the Restoration to the rise of New Labour.
The Hanoverian Succession
Author | : Andreas Gestrich,Michael Schaich |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317029328 |
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The Hanoverian succession of 1714 brought about a 123-year union between Britain and the German electorate of Hanover, ushering in a distinct new period in British history. Under the four Georges and William IV Britain became arguably the most powerful nation in the world with a growing colonial Empire, a muscular economy and an effervescent artistic, social and scientific culture. And yet history has not tended to be kind to the Hanoverians, frequently portraying them as petty-minded and boring monarchs presiding over a dull and inconsequential court, merely the puppets of parliament and powerful ministers. In order both to explain and to challenge such a paradox, this collection looks afresh at the Georgian monarchs and their role, influence and legacy within Britain, Hanover and beyond. Concentrating on the self-representation and the perception of the Hanoverians in their various dominions, each chapter shines new light on important topics: from rivalling concepts of monarchical legitimacy and court culture during the eighteenth century to the multi-confessional set-up of the British composite monarchy and the role of social groups such as the military, the Anglican Church and the aristocracy in defining and challenging the political order. As a result, the volume uncovers a clearly defined new style of Hanoverian kingship, one that emphasized the Protestantism of the dynasty, laid great store by rational government in close collaboration with traditional political powers, embraced army and navy to an unheard of extent and projected this image to audiences on the British Isles, in the German territories and in the colonies alike. Three hundred years after the succession of the first Hanoverian king, an intriguing new perspective of a dynasty emerges, challenging long held assumptions and prejudices.
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination 1760 1830
Author | : Paul Stock |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192533876 |
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Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Was Europe unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was Europe primarily a commercial network or were there common political practices too? Was Britain itself a European country? While intellectual history is concerned predominantly with prominent thinkers, Paul Stock traces the history of ideas in non-elite contexts, offering a detailed analysis of nearly 350 geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias, which were widely read by literate Britons of all classes, and can reveal the formative ideas about Europe circulating in Britain: ideas about religion; the natural environment; race and other theories of human difference; the state; borders; the identification of the 'centre' and 'edges' of Europe; commerce and empire; and ideas about the past, progress, and historical change. By showing how these and other questions were discussed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British culture, Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 provides a thorough and much-needed historical analysis of Britain's enduringly complex intellectual relationship with Europe.
The Emergence of Britain s Global Naval Supremacy
Author | : Richard Harding |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843835806 |
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Discusses the lessons which Britain learned in the war of 1739-48 which, when applied in later wars, brought about Britain's global naval supremacy.
Commerce and Politics in Hume s History of England
Author | : Jia Wei |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781783271870 |
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Illuminates the relationship between Hume the political thinker, Hume the historian, and Hume the political economist and highlights the social, economic and institutional changes which he wove into an innovative theory of causation
Hanover and the British Empire 1700 1837
Author | : Nick Harding |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843833000 |
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A reappraisal of the links between Hanover and Great Britain, highlighting their previously un-explored importance.