Bøker av Colin (University of Glasgow) Kidd

This offers a comprehensive coverage of ethnic and national identities in the British world in the era which immediately preceded the onset of modern racialist and nationalist thinking. Ranging across the political cultures of England, Scotland, Ireland and revolutionary America, it also considers European influences and comparisons.

A major survey of Scotland's dominant political ideology over the past three centuries by one of its leading historians. Colin Kidd engages with central themes in modern British history, tracing the history of Scottish unionist ideas from the sixteenth century onwards and focussing especially on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book explores the way in which religious ideas have shaped British and American thinking about race between 1600 and 2000. It shows that the Bible has been just as influential as science over the last few centuries in forging racial attitudes and identities.