Research Catalog

Title

These fissured Isles : Ireland, Scotland and the making of modern Britain 1798-1848 / edited by Terry Brotherstone, Anna Clark and Kevin Whelan.

Publication

Edinburgh : John Donald, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Brotherstone, Terry.
• Clark, Anna.
• Whelan, Kevin, 1958-

Description

viii, 296 p., [4] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Ireland, Scotland and British history, 1798-1848

Subject

• Nationalism > Great Britain > History > 18th century > Congresses
• Nationalism > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Congresses
• Great Britain > Social conditions > 18th century > Congresses
• Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Papers from a conference held at the University of Aberdeen, 8-11 July 1999.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Rethinking the trajectory of modern British history : an Ireland-Scotland approach / Terry Brotherstone, Anna Clark and Kevin Whelan -- Ireland, Scotland and Britain in the long eighteenth century / Kevin Whelan -- T.B. Macaulay, Whig history and the romance of empire : towards a 'greater Britain' / Theodore Koditschek -- 1798 as the defeat of feminism : women, patriotism and politics / Anna Clark -- Nation or neighbourhood? : Mary Leadbetter's public and private writing / Kevin O'Neill -- Scottish responses to the Irish rebellion of 1798 / Emma Vincent Macleod -- Scottish historical painting in the 1820s : Tory hegemony and the spectacle of literary celebrity / Duncan Forbes -- The Chartists in 1848 / Dorothy Thompson -- The Catholic Irish and Chartism in the west of Scotland / Martin J. Mitchell -- Chartism, the Great Hunger and the 'hugest question' / Terry Brotherstone and Liz Leicester -- Commemorating 'ninety-eight' in 1998 : a reappraisal of history-making in contemporary Ireland / Guy Beiner -- Scotland's lost past : British history and the paradoxes of the Scottish nation / James D. Young -- Ulster Presbyterians and the 'two traditions' in Ireland and America / Kerby A. Miller.

ISBN

• 1904607500 (pbk.)
• 9781904607502 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 59356730
• SCSB-11747422

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library