Professor Colin Kidd

MA (Cantab.), D. Phil. (Oxon.), FBA, FRSE,  FRHist.S, FSA Scot

 

Contact Details

E-mail -cck3@st-andrews.ac.uk
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462895
Fax - +44 (0)1334 462914

 

 

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Teaching and Research Interests

Early Modern and Modern Intellectual History (broadly defined, including Literature, Anthropology, Law and Church History); Constitutional Theory; Modern Scottish History; Racial, National and Ethnic Identities.     

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Main Publications

Books

• Subverting Scotland’s Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity, 1689-c.1830 (Cambridge, 1993)
• British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the British Atlantic World, 1600-1800 (Cambridge, 1999)
• The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Atlantic World 1600-2000 (Cambridge, 2006)
• Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland 1500-2000 (Cambridge, 2008)

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Teaching Duties

Colin Kidd teaches the following Honours courses:

• Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland
• The Enlightenment and the World
• The American Constitution: Past and Present

Colin Kidd also contributes to the following team-taught courses:

• MO2008 Scotland, Britain and Empire 1500-2000
• HI2001 History as a Discipline
• M. Litt in Early Modern History
• Postgraduate Courses in Scottish Historical Studies

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