United Kingdoms

United Kingdoms
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 452
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ISBN-10 : 9780192883742
ISBN-13 : 0192883747
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Book Synopsis United Kingdoms by : Alvin Jackson

Download or read book United Kingdoms written by Alvin Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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