Books by Kathleen (State University of New York Wilson

Rooted in a period of aggressive 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 18th century.

This book, first published in 1995, demonstrates the central role of 'people', the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. It shows how the wide-ranging political culture of English towns attuned ordinary men and women to the issues of state power and thus enabled them to stake their own claims in national and imperial affairs.