LEADER 03913nam 22007453 450 001 9911046527403321 005 20260105054413.0 010 $a1-915249-23-6 010 $a1-915249-22-8 035 $a(CKB)40123541300041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32382081 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32382081 035 $a(OCoLC)1547900404 035 $a(OCoLC)1535172007 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_142642 035 $a(EXLCZ)9940123541300041 100 $a20251101d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAtlantic Isles 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cUniversity of London Press,$d2025. 210 4$dİ2025. 215 $a1 online resource (360 pages) 225 1 $aNew Historical Perspectives Series 311 08$a1-915249-20-1 311 08$a1-915249-21-X 330 $aThe west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the 'westward gaze', which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain and Ireland. From Cornish cliffs and Welsh mountains to Hebridean islands and the Connemara highlands, the west was an imagined geography that transcended the national territories of these isles. In the west, geologists uncovered ancient layers of rock, ethnologists described older racial 'types', philologists looked for the survival of Celtic languages, and antiquarians and archaeologists marvelled at megalithic monuments at the Atlantic coastline. The book draws on wide-ranging contemporary sources, including works of geology, philology, ethnology, history, geography, archaeology, folklore, literature, sociology and an extensive collection of travel writing that popularised western landscapes among readers and tourists who explored the increasingly accessible west by road, rail, and steamer. Atlantic Isles reveals that western landscapes were especially powerful spaces of modern enchantment, where stories of sunken lands and mythical islands produced a sense of mystery and wonder in a supposedly disenchanted world. The significance of western landscapes for national identities is well known, but this book demonstrates that the west was also central to debates about Britishness and to the bold attempt to construct a narrative of multinational union that claimed deep historical roots at a time when the subject of Home Rule periodically dominated political debate. 410 0$aNew historical perspectives 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE$2bisacsh 606 $aPolitical Ideologies$2bisacsh 606 $aNationalism & Patriotism$2bisacsh 606 $aHISTORY$2bisacsh 606 $aEurope$2bisacsh 606 $aGreat Britain$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial History$2bisacsh 607 $aIreland$2fast$1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqvXDFC7pX6tHkq6DX68C 607 $aGreat Britain$2fast$1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP 607 $aEurope$zBritish Isles$2fast$1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcwFg7grVgMfJy4kxFxjC 607 $aIrlande$xCivilisation 607 $aGrande-Bretagne$xCivilisation 607 $aBritanniques, I?les$xDescriptions et voyages 607 $aIreland$xCivilization 607 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization 607 $aBritish Isles$xDescription and travel 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE. 615 7$aPolitical Ideologies. 615 7$aNationalism & Patriotism. 615 7$aHISTORY. 615 7$aEurope. 615 7$aGreat Britain. 615 7$aSocial History. 676 $a914.10481 700 $aRoddy$b Gareth$01863100 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911046527403321 996 $aAtlantic Isles$94469544 997 $aUNINA