[PDF] United Kingdoms eBook

Author : Alvin Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0192883747

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The United Kingdom is weakening, and this book helps to explain why. Alvin Jackson examines the UK in the light of the experience of similar union states elsewhere, offering the first sustained comparative study across the long nineteenth century and beyond. The UK was not in fact the only self-styled 'united kingdom' of the time: Jackson argues strikingly and originally that Britain exported the idea of union through the advocacy or encouragement of other multinational united kingdoms at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The work is distinctive in its geographical breadth. Jackson draws together the histories of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England and explores the links between them and Sweden-Norway, the United Netherlands, Austria-Hungary and the United Canadas - and many other polities across the globe. United Kingdoms looks too at the institutions and agencies affecting the condition of union - from monarchy, aristocracy, and religion through to class, money, and violence. Jackson offers new overarching arguments about the origins, survival, and fall of all union states, and in doing so, sheds new light on the particular history, condition, and fate of the UK.

Author : Sean J. Connolly
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :

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In recent years there has been growing interest in the contrasts and parallels between the development of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. This collection of essays looks at economic, language and culture, and law development.

Author : Jim Smyth
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :

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The three kingdoms or 'four nations' which became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 have distinct, but not separate, histories. Sensitive questions of religion, local loyalty, and allegiance to the state, shaped politics within and between the four nations - and still give an edge to politics in parts of modern Britain. In 1660, the restoration of Charles II to all three of his kingdoms, was followed by an attempt to impose religious uniformity across his kingdoms. It failed. The make-up of the British Isles was too diverse. Tories, Jacobites, radicals and Whigs each had strong links to a Church or religious faction. Politics and religion could intermingle dangerously. Fear of popery was a major cause of the revolution of 1688, and at the beginning of the eighteenth century Presbyterians led Scottish opposition to a union until they were recognised as an established church. At the end of the century the architects of the act of union with Ireland hoped, finally, to resolve the 'Catholic Question', but (as it does today) constitutional change brought issues of national identity to the fore. The eighteenth century witnessed the triumph of unionism on the larger island, and the rise of nationalism and separatism across the Irish sea. "The Making of the United Kingdom" seeks to explain that crucial divergence, and gives an incisive account of the forging of Britishness the sense of a new nation. Jim Smyth is Professor of History, University of Notre Dame."

Author : Great Britain. "Life in the United Kingdom" Advisory Group
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0113413025

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This compendium of information aims primarily to assist teachers of English as a second language, mentors and others helping immigrants to integrate.

Author : Imogen Russell Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 024142044X

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Welcome... Fáilte... Croeso... Fair faa ye... to the United Kingdom! The Big Book of the UK introduces readers to customs and culture of the United Kingdom. Learn about the sport of "dwile flonking" and find out where black diamonds come from. Meet the supernatural animal that haunts the Scottish Highlands and discover the British sweets that helped Hillary and Tenzing scale Everest. Filled with facts about wildlife, food, sports, geography, language and some very silly place names, this book will help you uncover national secrets and unearth local legends from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.