Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c. 1650-c. 1850

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List of contributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Part I. Introduction: 1. The trials of the chosen peoples: recent interpretations of Protestantism and national identity in Britain and Ireland Tony Claydon and Ian McBride Part II. England: 2. 'I love my King and my Country, but a Roman Catholic I hate': anti-catholicism, xenophobia and national identity in eighteenth-century England Colin Haydon 3. Confessional state or elect nation? Religion and identity in eighteenth-century England Jeremy Black 4. 'To protect English liberties': the English nationalist revolution of 1688-1689 Steven Pincus 5. A history of variations: the identity of the eighteenth-century church of England Brian Young Part III. Britain and Ireland: 6. The British dimension, religion and the shaping of political identities during the reign of Charles II Tim Harris 7. The bible and national identity in the British Isles, c.1650-c.1750 Scott Mandelbrote 8. Protestantism, Presbyterianism and national identity in eighteenth-century Scottish history David Allan 9. Protestantism, ethnicity and Irish identities, 1660-1760 Toby Barnard 10. 'The common name of Irishman': Protestantism and patriotism in eighteenth-century Ireland Ian McBride Part IV. Britain, Ireland and the World: 11. The island race: Captain Cook, Protestant evangelicalism and the construction of English national identity, 1760-1800 Kathleen Wilson 12. A transatlantic perspective: Protestantism and national identities in mid-nineteenth-century Britain and the United States John Wolffe Index.