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Author: Michael Keating
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780191876851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United Kingdom has often been seen as a unitary nation-state. This book argues that it should be understood as a plurinational union in which they key elements of demos, telos, and ethos are contested.
Author: David Edgerton
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781846147753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in an otherwise convulsed and unstable Europe; its political history a smooth sequence of administrations, a story of building a welfare state and coping with decline. But what if Britain's history was approached from a different angle? What if we wrote about it with as we might write the history of Germany, say, or the Soviet Union, as a story of power, and of transformation? David Edgerton's major new book breaks out of the confines of traditional British national history to reveal an unfamiliar place, subject to radical discontinuities. Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British nation. This was committed to internal change, making it much more like the great continental powers. From the 1970s it became bound up both with the European Union and with foreign capital in new ways. Such a perspective produces new and refreshed understanding of everything from the nature of British politics to the performance of British industry. Packed with surprising examples and arguments, The Rise and Fall of the British Nationgives us a grown-up, unsentimental history, one which is crucial at a moment of serious reconsideration for the country and its future.
Author: Christian Joppke
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780198295402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Part 2, the author addresses the ways in which immigration impacts upon citizenship, arguing for the continuing relevance of national citizenship for integrating immigrants, albeit modified by nationally distinct schemes of multiculturalism."--Jacket.
Author: Robin Mann
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-01-20
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 113746674X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely book provides an extensive account of national identities in three of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom: Wales, Scotland and England. In all three contexts, identity and nationalism have become questions of acute interest in both academic and political commentary. The authors take stock of a wealth of empirical material and explore how attitudes to nation and state can be understood by relating them to changes in contemporary capitalist economies, and the consequences for particular class fractions. The book argues that these changes give rise to a set of resentments among people who perceive themselves to be losing out, concluding that class resentments, depending on historical and political factors relevant to each nation, can take the form of either sub-state nationalism or right wing populism. Nation, Class and Resentment shows that the politics of resentment is especially salient in England, where the promotion of a distinct national identity is problematic. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology and politics, will find this study of interest.
Author: John Campbell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-08-13
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1538197812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNigeria, despite being the African country of greatest strategic importance to the U.S., remains poorly understood. John Campbell explains why Nigeria is so important to understand in a world of jihadi extremism, corruption, oil conflict, and communal violence. The revised edition provides updates through the recent presidential election.
Author: Derek Curtis Bok
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780674292116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author shows that although Americans are better off today in most areas than they were in 1960, they have performed poorly compared with other leading industrial nations.
Author: Alan Gordon Rae Smith
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ben Wellings
Publisher: Proceedings of the British Aca
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780197266618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Anglosphere - a transnational imagined community consisting of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK - came to international prominence in the wake of Brexit. The Anglosphere's origins lie in the British Empire and the conflicts of the 20th century. It encompasses an extensive but ill-defined community bonded by language, culture, media, and 'civilisational' heritage founded on the shared beliefs and practices of free-market economics and liberal democracy. Supporters of the Anglosphere argue that it provides a better 'fit' for English-speaking countries at a time when global politics is in a state of flux and under strain from economic crises, conflict and terrorism, and humanitarian disasters. This edited volume provides the first detailed analyses of the Anglosphere, bringing together leading international academic experts to examine its historical origins and contemporary political, social, economic, military, and cultural manifestations. They reveal that the Anglosphere is underpinned by a range of continuities and discontinuities which are shaped by the location of its five core states. The volume reveals that although the Anglosphere is founded on a common view of the past and the present, it continually seeks to realise a shared future which is never fully attained. The volume thus makes an important contribution to debates about the future of the UK outside of the EU, and the potential for the English-speaking peoples to shape the 21st century.
Author: David M. McCourt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2014-08-18
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0472052217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the fall of its empire, Britain still holds sway
Author: Thierry Baudet
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2012-05-25
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 900422808X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains why supranationalism and multiculturalism are in fact irreconcilable with representative government and the rule of law. It challenges one of the most central beliefs in contemporary legal and political philosophy, which is that borders are bound to disappear.
