Four Nations Approaches To Modern British History

Author : Naomi Lloyd-Jones,Margaret Scull
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137601421

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Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History by Naomi Lloyd-Jones,Margaret Scull Pdf

This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars to evaluate the viability of four nations approaches to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It recognises the separate histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and explores the extent to which they share a common, ‘British’ history. They are entwined, with the points at which they interweave and detach dependent upon the nature of our inquiry, where we locate our ‘core’ and our ‘periphery’, and the ‘cause’ and ‘effect’ of our subject. The collection demonstrates that four nations frameworks are relevant to a variety of topics and tests the limits of the methodology. The chapters illuminate the changing shape of modern British history writing, and provide fresh perspectives on subjects ranging from state governance, nationalism and Unionism, economics, cultural identities and social networking.

Author : Frank Welsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025940730

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The Four Nations by Frank Welsh Pdf

This volume covers the history of the mutual relations between the constituent parts of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland), made topical by the recent devolution developments in Scotland and Wales. By comparison with the United States, the history of the United Kingdom as an undivided entity has been quite short. This book describes the history of each constituent part, their interaction, and the effect of external events. As soon as British history is seen as an integral part of world (especially European) history, the perspective alters drastically.

Author : Frank Welsh
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300093748

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The Four Nations by Frank Welsh Pdf

"In The Four Nations, Frank Welsh offers a lively narrative history of the four component parts of the British Isles - England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Moving from the Roman period, which first defined many of the current internal boundaries, through the present day, Welsh describes the history of each nation, their interactions, and the impacts of crises ranging from the Norman Invasion to the Protestant Reformation to the two world wars of the twentieth century. Along the way, Welsh questions many cherished illusions and poses some awkward questions: to what extent were Scotland, Ireland, and Wales victims of predatory English aggression? How serious is the frequently invoked specter of national fragmentation?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Hugh Kearney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107623897

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The British Isles by Hugh Kearney Pdf

Hugh Kearney's classic account of the history of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the present is distinguished by its treatment of English history as part of a wider 'history of four nations'. Not only focusing on England, it attempts to deal with the histories of Wales, Ireland and Scotland in their own terms, whilst recognising that they too have political, religious and cultural divides. This new edition endeavours to recognise and examine contemporary multi-ethnic Britain and its implications for 'four-nations' history, making it an invaluable case study for European nationhood of the past and present. Thoroughly updated throughout to take into account recent social, political and cultural changes within Britain and examine the rise of multi-ethnic Britain, this revised edition also contains a completely new set of illustrations, including sixteen maps.

Author : Hugh Kearney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1107390737

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The British Isles by Hugh Kearney Pdf

A new edition of a classic book, thoroughly updated to take into account social, political and cultural changes within Britain.

Author : Clodagh Tait
Publisher : Polity
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0745632548

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Early Modern British History 1485-1691 by Clodagh Tait Pdf

Early Modern British and Irish History 1500-1700: Society and Culture in Four Nations takes an innovative comparative approach to the social and cultural history of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales during the period when they came under the rule of a single monarch. This accessible and engaging synthesis will be of use to teachers and students of any or all of the constituent parts of the British and Irish Isles in the early modern period, and will also appeal to anyone interested more generally in this turbulent period. Within the context of recent debates on the ‘New British History’, the book looks at the experiences of the inhabitants of the islands and their contacts with their fellow citizens, whether locally or further afield. It explores the construction of ideas about national origins and identities, and considers how ideas about ethnic difference shaped both violent and peaceful interactions between and within nations. The development of competing religious identities is traced, but despite theological differences, many aspects of belief – in its widest sense – were familiar throughout the islands. Likewise, concerns with life from birth to death, with status and reputation, and with being part of families and communities, were common to the populations of different areas. This will be a key text in British and early modern history for years to come

Author : Frank Welsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0007153341

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Four Nations by Frank Welsh Pdf

Author : David Blaazer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192887030

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Forging Nations by David Blaazer Pdf

In Forging Nations, Blaazer studies the relationships between money, power, and nationality in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the first attempts to unify their currencies following the Union of the Crowns in 1603 to the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. Through successive crises spanning four centuries, Forging Nations examines critical struggles over monetary power between the state and its creditors, and within and between nations during the long, multifaceted process of creating the United Kingdom as a monetary as well as a political union. It shows how and why centuries of monetary dysfunction and conflict eventually gave way to the era of the sterling gold standard, when elite and popular beliefs about money converged around a set of almost unassailable monetary dogmas that transcended differences of nationality, party, and class. Sustained by a mixture of historical myths and imperial hubris, this consensus effortlessly reinforced the authority and served the interests of the monetary elite, even after its economic foundations had collapsed under the pressure of war and international competition. The book concludes by showing how the end of the UK's global hegemony and the prospect of Scottish independence have resuscitated historical differences between England, Ireland, and Scotland in attitudes to currency's role in defining national identity, while the Global Financial Crisis has revived forgotten debates over the nature of money and monetary power.

Author : Stephanie Barczewski,Martin Farr
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030244590

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The MacKenzie Moment and Imperial History by Stephanie Barczewski,Martin Farr Pdf

This book celebrates the career of the eminent historian of the British Empire John M. MacKenzie, who pioneered the examination of the impact of the Empire on metropolitan culture. It is structured around three areas: the cultural impact of empire, 'Four-Nations' history, and global and transnational perspectives. These essays demonstrate MacKenzie’s influence but also interrogate his legacy for the study of imperial history, not only for Britain and the nations of Britain but also in comparative and transnational context. Written by seventeen historians from around the world, its subjects range from Jumbomania in Victorian Britain to popular imperial fiction, the East India Company, the ironic imperial revivalism of the 1960s, Scotland and Ireland and the empire, to transnational Chartism and Belgian colonialism. The essays are framed by three evaluations of what will be known as 'the MacKenzian moment' in the study of imperialism.

Author : Henry J. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316511701

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A Nation of Petitioners by Henry J. Miller Pdf

Explores the central role of petitions in reshaping the political culture of the United Kingdom in their nineteenth-century heyday.

Author : Susan Kingsley Kent
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0199846502

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A New History of Britain Since 1688 by Susan Kingsley Kent Pdf

"Based on the most current scholarship concerning gender, race, ethnicity, and empire, this 15-chapter textbook comprehensively examines the development of and contestations against a British identity among the constituent parts of the United Kingdom since 1688. It takes seriously the role of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland in this process, and brings Britain's imperial subjects and lands into the narrative, showing how integral empire was to the UK's historical development. It examines the role environmental factors in economic development and their impact on the health and welfare of British citizens and subjects; and it uses gender, in particular, to illuminate power dynamics across a variety of settings. All this in a manageable length"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jonathan Hogg,Kate Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000395167

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British Nuclear Mobilisation Since 1945 by Jonathan Hogg,Kate Brown Pdf

This book explores aspects of the social and cultural history of nuclear Britain in the Cold War era (1945–1991) and contributes to a more multivalent exploration of the consequences of nuclear choices which are too often left unacknowledged by historians of post-war Britain. In the years after 1945, the British government mobilised money, scientific knowledge, people and military–industrial capacity to create both an independent nuclear deterrent and the generation of electricity through nuclear reactors. This expensive and vast ‘technopolitical’ project, mostly top-secret and run by small sub-committees within government, was central to broader Cold War strategy and policy. Recent attempts to map the resulting social and cultural history of these military–industrial policy decisions suggest that nuclear mobilisation had far-reaching consequences for British life. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

Author : Mark Corner
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783839464823

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A Tale of Two Unions by Mark Corner Pdf

Brexit is a tale of two unions, not one: the British and the European unions. Their origins are different, but both struggle to maintain unity in diversity and both have to face the challenge of populism and claims of democratic deficit. Mark Corner suggests that the »four nations« that make up the UK can only survive as part of a single nation-state, if the country looks more sympathetically at the very European structures from which it has chosen to detach itself. This study addresses both academic and lay audiences interested in the current situation of the UK, particularly the strains raised by devolution and Brexit.

Author : Stuart Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009308694

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Untied Kingdom by Stuart Ward Pdf

How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World War. From Indian independence, West Indian immigration and African decolonization to the Suez Crisis and the Falklands War, he uncovers the demise of Britishness as a global civic idea and its impact on communities across the globe. He also shows the consequences of this diminished 'global reach' in Britain itself, from the Troubles in Northern Ireland to resurgent Englishness and the startling success of separatist political agendas in Scotland and Wales. Untied Kingdom puts the contemporary travails of the Union for the first time in their full global perspective as part of the much larger story of the progressive rollback of Britain's imaginative frontiers.

Author : Huw Pryce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192692320

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Writing Welsh History by Huw Pryce Pdf

Writing Welsh History is the first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years. By analysing and contextualizing a wide range of historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, it opens new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh - and thus on the use of the past to articulate national and other identities. The study's broad chronological scope serves to highlight important continuities in interpretations of Welsh history. One enduring preoccupation is Wales's place in Britain. Down to the twentieth century it was widely held that the Welsh were an ancient people descended from the original inhabitants of Britain whose history in its fullest sense ended with Edward I's conquest of Wales in 1282-4, their history thereafter being regarded as an attenuated appendix. However, Huw Pryce shows that such master narratives, based on medieval sources and focused primarily on the period down to 1282, were part of a much larger and more varied historiographical landscape. Over the past century the thematic and chronological range of Welsh history writing has expanded significantly, notably in the unprecedented attention given to the modern period, reflecting broader trends in an increasingly internationalized historical profession as well as the influence of social, economic, and political developments in Wales and elsewhere.