Murray Pittock 
Inventing and Resisting Britain [PDF ebook] 
Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685 1789

This book examines the difficulties and challenges which faced attempts to create a British identity. Taking its perspective from the cultural, social and political margins of the British Isles, it demonstrates how fragile the supposed political consensus of the eighteenth century was. To read it is to revaluate our understanding of the culture of England in relation to other societies of these islands.