The Discovery of Islands

ISBN: 9780521616454 出版年：2005 页码：360 Pocock Cambridge University Press

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.