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This book analyses the English Question - does England need to find its own political voice, following devolution to Scotland and Wales?, or are the English content to muddle through?
Everyone eschews labels yet we all seem to posses them in the minds of legions of politicians, marketers and even the ever-peering government. We are being targeted daily by flaming liberals, left-wing liberals, right-wing conservatives, compassionate conservatives, religious conservatives and liberals, pinko liberals, middle-of-the-road liberals conservatives and liberals, pinko liberals, middle-of-the-road liberals and conservatives and of course by neoconservatives and neoliberals. The search is on for kindred souls -- the types who will open their wallets to support whatever it is the hucksters are peddling. But what to these concepts mean and do their torchbearers grasp the underlying philosophies or do they care? This bibliography lists over hundreds of entries under each category which are then indexed by title an author.
Winner of the Political Studies Association WJM MacKenzie Prize for best book of 2014 The Politics of English Nationhood supplies the first comprehensive overview of the evidence, research and major arguments relating to the revival of Englishness, exploring its varied, and often overlooked, political ramifications and dimensions. It examines the difficulties which the major political parties have encountered in dealing with 'the English question' against the backdrop of the diminishing hold of established ideas of British government and national identity in the final years of the last century. And it explores a range of factors—including insecurities generated by economic change, Euroscep...
By focusing on the possibilities for change created by the dynamics of European integration and the Anglo-Irish political process, this book provides a refreshing account of communal identity in Northern Ireland. The book argues that such a shift in conditions has major implications for Northern Irish Nationalist and Ulster Unionist identities.
Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster is the most influential and historically significant sector of Christianity in Northern Ireland. This innovative and controversial book explores different Evangelical responses to the declining fate of Ulster Unionism during the period from Partition in 1921 to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Focusing on how religious belief has interacted with national identity in a context of political conflict, it eschews a reductionist or purely historical approach to interpreting religion. Rather, using a combination of historical and theological material, Patrick Mitchel offers a critical assessment of how Evangelical identities in Ulster have embodied the religious ...
Governing England explores how England is governed and how the English wish to be governed. England's relationships to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland is discussed in terms of devolution and Brexit alongside the regional divide of the Brexit vote. Issues of nationalism and support for separate English institutions are also examined.
Argues that unionism in Northern Ireland can best protect the British link by developing a more sophisticated civic unionism, with an enlarged vision of the scope and nature of politics. This edition also covers the peace talks, the Belfast Agreement and the Assembly elections of June 1998.
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A.T.Q. Stewart is one of Ireland.s foremost historians and the author of numerous books on Irish affairs. In 1969 he published The Ulster crisis: resistance to Home Rule, 1912-1914 to great critical acclaim, a book that has remained a definitive text on the period in question. Now retired from college life, this book seeks to honor his contribution to Irish and British historical studies for the last 45 years.