Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index.
Contents
The restoration: four nations in search of a king -- Three kingdoms, one church? -- Disaffection and dissent: the heroic age -- The Catholic problem -- Constitutional relations, national identities, union -- Jacobitism and the British state -- Convergence and divergence: identity formation and politics in the eighteenth century -- Catholics, Protestants and dissenters: religion and politics in the eighteenth century -- United the kingdoms: the British-Irish union.