Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Similarities, Connections, Identities

by Stephen Conway

Britain's separateness from the rest of Europe is often taken as read. For generations, historians have presented Britain as exceptional and different. In recent years an emphasis on the Atlantic and imperial aspects of British history, and on the importance of the nation and national identity, has made Britain and Ireland seem even more distant from the neighbouring Continent.

Stephen Conway's study offers a different perspective on eighteenth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199210853
• ISBN13: 9780199210855
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"