The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century

Rooted in a period of vigorous exploration and colonialism, this innovative study takes the idea of the English as an 'Island Race' and shows how this concept is key to understanding British imperial history in the eighteenth century.

Author: Kathleen Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/03/2002
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.18w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780415158961

About the Author
Kathleen Wilson is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has written widely on empire and the politics of culture in eighteenth-century Britain, including The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England 1715-1785, winner of the 1995 Whitfield Prize for British History, Royal Historical Society, and the 1996 John Ben Snow Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies.