The Discovery of Islands
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- Author: J. G. A. Pocock, The Johns Hopkins University
- Date Published: September 2005
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Written by one of the world's leading historians of political thought and published over the past three decades, the purpose of these essays is to present British history as the history of several nations interacting with--and sometimes seceding from--association with an imperial state. The commentary presents this history as that of an archipelago, situated in oceans and expanding across them to the Antipodes. Both New Zealand history and ways of seeing history formed in New Zealand enter into the vision.
Read more- Seminal essays on British and imperial history by one of the world's great historians
- Much more than 'just' Collected Essays - new linking material to provide strong thematic coherence
- Strong global appeal - the author's reputation extends to North America, New Zealand and Australia, and the UK
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"This collection of essays will prove a valuable resource... (A)n engaging and thought provoking contribution to a growing body of work concerned with rethinking the meaning of British history"
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- Date Published: September 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521616454
- length: 358 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.572kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
Part I. The Field Proposed:
1. The Antipodean perception
2. British history: a plea for a new subject
Part II. The Three Kingdoms and the English Problem:
3. The field enlarged: an introduction
4. Two kingdoms and three histories? Political thought in British contexts
5. The Atlantic archipelago and the War of the Three Kingdoms
6. The third kingdom in its history
Part III. Empire and Rebellion in the First Age of Union:
7. Archipelago, Europe and Atlantic after 1688
8. The significance of 1688: some reflections on Whig history
9. Empire, state and confederation: the war of American independence as a crisis in multiple monarchy
10. The Union of 1801 in British history
Part IV. New Zealand in the Strange Multiplicity:
11. The neo-Britains and the three empires
12. Tangata whenua and Enlightenment anthropology
13. Law, sovereignty and history in a divided culture: the case of New Zealand and the Treaty of Waitangi
Part V. Britain, Europe and Post-Modern History:
14. Sovereignty and history in the late twentieth century
15. Deconstructing Europe
16. The politics of the new British history
17. Conclusion: history, sovereignty, identity
Bibliographies
Index.
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