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United Kingdoms - Alvin Jackson

United Kingdoms

Multinational Union States in Europe and Beyond, 1800-1925

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
464 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-288374-2 (ISBN)
CHF 63,90 inkl. MwSt
The United Kingdom is weakening. 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, drawing conclusions which shed new light on the particular history, condition, and fate of the UK.
The United Kingdom has been 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 19th century and beyond. The UK was not in fact the only self-styled 'united kingdom' of the time: Jackson argues strikingly that Britain exported the idea of union through the advocacy or encouragement of other multinational united kingdoms at the beginning of the 19th 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 Canada—and many other polities across the globe. United Kingdoms looks too at the institutions and agencies affecting the strength of union—from monarchy, aristocracy, and religion through to class, money, and violence. Jackson offers new overarching arguments about the origins and survival of all union states, and in doing so, sheds new light on the particular history and condition of the UK.

Alvin Jackson is Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at Corpus Christi College and Nuffield College Oxford. He has taught at University College Dublin, Boston College and - as Professor of Modern Irish History - at Queen's University Belfast. He is the author of seven books, including The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007 (OUP, 2012), and has edited The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History (OUP, 2014). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the Academia Europaea, and an honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He also holds an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin.

1: Introduction: the United Kingdom and its analogues
2: The unions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1535-1922): case studies
3: European unions and beyond: case studies
4: Centripede: the institutional bolsters of union
5: Alternative unions: federalism
6: Centrifuge: why do unions fail?
7: Untied kingdoms: past politics and present history
Select union chronology (covering the issues and events addressed in the study)

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 20 black and white images
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 240 mm
Gewicht 904 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-288374-7 / 0192883747
ISBN-13 978-0-19-288374-2 / 9780192883742
Zustand Neuware
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