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State of the Union (Hardcover, New)
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State of the Union (Hardcover, New)
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This is the first survey of Unionism, the ideology of most of the
rulers of the United Kingdom for the last 300 years. Because it was
taken so much for granted, it has never been properly studied. Now
that we stand in the twilight of Unionism, it is possible to see it
as it casts its long shadow over British and imperial history since
1707.
The book looks at all the crucial moments in the history of
Unionism. In 1707, the parliaments and (more important) executives
of England and Scotland were united. During the 18th century,
although not immediately after 1707, that union blossomed and
brought benefits to both parties. It facilitated the first and
second British Empires. The Union of Great Britain and Ireland in
1800-01 was formally similar but behaviourally quite different. It
was probably doomed from the start when George III refused to
accept Catholic Emancipation. Nevertheless, no leading British
politician heeded the Irish clamour for Home Rule until Gladstone
in 1886. That cataclysmic year has determined the shape of British
and Irish politics ever since. Having refused to concede Irish Home
Rule through the heyday of primordial Unionism from 1886 to 1920,
British politicians had to accept Irish independence in 1921,
whereupon primordial Unionism fell apart except in Northern
Ireland. Twentieth-century Unionism has been instrumental - valuing
the Union for its consequences, not because it was intrinsically
good.
As Unionism was inextricably tied up with the British Empire, it
nevertheless remained as a strong but unexamined theme until the
end of Empire. The unionist parties (Conservative and Labour)
responded to the upsurge of Scottish and Welsh nationalism, and of
violence in Northern Ireland, in the light of their mostly
unexamined unionism in the 1960s. With the departure from politics
of the last Unionists (Enoch Powell and John Major), British
politics is now subtly but profoundly different.
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