The Island race. Englishness, Empire and gender in the Eighteenth

Ìntroduction: nations, empires and identities in the eighteenth century; Citizenship, empire and modernity in the English provinces; The island race: Captain Cook and English ethnicity; Britannia into battle: Women, war and identities in England and America; The black wodow: Gender, race and perfomance in England and Jamaica; Breasts, sodomy and the lash: Masculinity and enlightenment aboard the Cook voyages; Epilogue: Save the stones King Alfred and the perfomance of origins.