Europe and the making of England, 1660-1760

Tony Claydon

Wide-ranging and original re-interpretation of English history and national identity during the vital century (1660-1760) in which the country emerged as the leading world power and developed its peculiarly free political culture. Disputing the insular and xenophobic image of the English in the period, and denying that this was an age of secularisation, Tony Claydon demonstrates instead the country's active participation in a 'protestant international' and its deep attachment to a European 'Christendom'. He shows how these outward-looking identities shaped key developments by generating a profound sense of duty to God's foreign faithful. The English built a world-beating state by intervening abroad to defend Christendom and the reformation, and their politics were forged as they debated different understandings of these international entities. England may have diverged from continental norms in this period but this book shows that it did so because of its intense religious engagement with that continent.

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Wide-ranging and original re-interpretation of English history and national identity during the vital century (1660-1760) in which the country emerged as the leading world power and developed its peculiarly free political culture. Disputing the insular and xenophobic image of the English in the period, and denying that this was an age of secularisation, Tony Claydon demonstrates instead the country's active participation in a 'protestant international' and its deep attachment to a European 'Christendom'. He shows how these outward-looking identities shaped key developments by generating a profound sense of duty to God's foreign faithful. The English built a world-beating state by intervening abroad to defend Christendom and the reformation, and their politics were forged as they debated different understandings of these international entities. England may have diverged from continental norms in this period but this book shows that it did so because of its intense religious engagement with that continent.

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[目次]

  • Introduction
  • 1. Space: English confessional geography
  • 2. Time: English confessional chronology
  • 3. England in Europe: the rise of a great power
  • 4. Europe in England: the opening of politics
  • Conclusion: the paradox of peculiarity.

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[目次]

  • Introduction
  • 1. Space: English confessional geography
  • 2. Time: English confessional chronology
  • 3. England in Europe: the rise of a great power
  • 4. Europe in England: the opening of politics
  • Conclusion: the paradox of peculiarity.

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書名 Europe and the making of England, 1660-1760
著作者等 Claydon, Tony
シリーズ名 Cambridge studies in early modern British history
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2007
ページ数 x, 370 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 9780521615204
9780521850049
NCID BA82759099
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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