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

by Kathleen Wilson (Author)

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 Biography

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.