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14. Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, pp. 13, 116-18, 130.
15. See Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, pp. 39, 119-20, 124-32, 294-95; Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, pp. 38, 54, 59-61, 162-65, 34417, 357-58. On the idea of the “Scottish Empire,” see Duncan A. Bruce, The Mark of the Scots (Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1996), pp. 59-60 and chap. 6; and Michael Fry's recent book, The Scottish Empire (Edinburgh: Tuckwell Press, 2001).
16. Bruce, TheMark of the Scots, pp. 102-5,117,192-94; Colley, Britons: Torging the Nation, pp. 130-32; Herman, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, pp. 22-27, 62-65, 165, 291-92, 310, 320-24, 337-78.
17. My discussion of Victoria and the heyday of the British Empire relies heavily on David Cannadine, The Pleasures of the Past (London: William Collins Sons & Co., 1989), pp. 23, 26; Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 164-66, 240-45; Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), pp. 151-56.
18. Immanuel Wallerstein, The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730-1840s, vol. 3 of The Modern World-System (San Diego: Academic Press, 1989), pp. 23,122; Wilson, The Dutch Republic, pp. 237-38. The Bank of England quote is from Giuseppi, The Bank of England, p.l.
19. Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, p. 166.
20. Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, pp. 155-64. See also, more generally, the following exceptional books by David Cannadine: Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994); The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (New York: Vintage Books, 1999).
21. Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, pp. 354, 358-59.
22. See generally ibid.
23. Ibid., pp. 19-23; Colin Haydon, Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century England c. 1714-80 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993), pp. 22, 76. On John Locke and toleration, see Grell and Porter, Toleration in Enlightenment Europe, pp. 5-8.
24. See Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, pp. 19, 22-25, 35-36, 321-24. For two excellent discussions of the Gordon Riots, see Haydon, Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century England, pp. 20414 (the quote from the eyewitness is on p. 214); and Nicholas Rogers, “Crowd and People in the Gordon Riots,” in Eckhart Hellmuth, ed., The Transformation of Political Culture: England and Germany in the Late Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 39-55.
25. Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, pp. 35-36, 322-34; Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 62-64, 323-25; James Lydon, The Making of Ireland (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 217, 290-91, 301-2, 33612, 353-55.
26. Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 29-31, 42-48, 50, 56, 180; T. A. Heathcote, The Military in British India (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995), pp. 21-36, 39-67, 70; Lawrence James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India (London: Little, Brown and Company, 1997), pp. 5-6, 9-10, 22-24, 4213, 63, 71, 77, 79; Stanley Wolpert, A New History of India, 7th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), chaps. 12-14; David Omissi, The Sepoy and the Raj: The Indian Army, 1860-1940 (London: Macmillan Press, 1994), pp. 1-7, 52, 62, 94-95; Heather Streets, “The Rebellion of 1857: Origins, Consequences, and Themes,” Teaching South Asia, vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter 2000). For India population figures, see Wolpert, p. 231.
27. On India's military heritage, see Heathcote, The Military in British India, chap. 1. As to British strategic tolerance and the religious and ethnic diversity of the Indian army under the Raj, see Ferguson, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, pp. 136-38, 146, 173-74, 184-89; James, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India, pp. 178, 223,