A Union of Multiple Identities: The British Isles, C.1750-C. 1850

by David Eastwood (Editor), Laurence W. B. Brockliss (Editor)

The nature and extent of 'Britishness' is one of the burning contemporary cultural issues of the 1990s. The gradual creation of a single state embracing all the inhabitants of the British Isles, which culminated in the Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland 1801, has not led in the long term to the consolidation of a permanent primary British identity.

222 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1997