Four nations approaches to modern 'British' history : a (dis)United Kingdom? / Naomi Lloyd-Jones, Margaret M. Scull, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lloyd-Jones, Naomi, editor.

Scull, Margaret M., editor.

McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

History.

England--Civilization.

England.

Civilization.

Scotland--History.

Scotland.

Ireland--History.

Ireland.

Wales--History.

Wales.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Contents:

Part I, methodology. A new plea for an old subject? Four nations history for the modern period / Naomi Lloyd-Jones, Margaret M. Scull

J.G.A. Pocock and the politics of British history / Ian McBride

'A vertiginous sense of impending loss' : four nations history and the problem of narrative / Paul O'Leary.

Part II, practice. The eighteenth-century fiscal-military state : a four nations perspective / Patrick Walsh

The Scottish enlightenment and the British-Irish union of 1801 / James Stafford

Celticism and the four nations in the long nineteenth century / Ian B. Stewart

The beefeaters at the Tower of London, 1826-1914 : icons of Englishness or Britishness / Paul Ward

Regional societies and the migrant Edwardian royal dockyard worker : locality, nation and empire / Melanie Bassett

Four nations poverty, 1870-1914 : the view from the centre to the margins / Oliver Betts

Wales and socialism, 1880-1914 : towards a four nations analysis / Martin Wright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the McWilliams-Tattersall Fund.

ISBN:

9781137601414

1137601418

OCLC:

982651584

Publisher Number:

99975451551