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Unearthing events that have barely been covered in recent published
records, this account examines the conflicts of a remote Scottish
Highland community in the 1900s, bringing to light a broad spectrum
of social and economic concerns, including a remarkable willingness
to fight for principles and the welfare of friends, neighbors, and
coworkers. Exploring a wide range of experiences and loyalties,
this history compares successes and failures, as well as
compromises, to discover the historiographical significance of a
forgotten land.
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of academic and popular
interest in the issue of social identity. Yet the subject areas of
regional and sub-regional identities, and historical engagements
between 'the regional', 'the local' and 'the national', remain very
neglected. Seeking to make a contribution towards redressing these
areas of neglect and to further advancing our knowledge and
understanding of the general issue of social identity, this volume
of essays offers the reader an exploration of some of the rich and
varied, historical interpretations of 'the North' and
'Northernness'. The focus rests mainly, but not exclusively, upon
the North of England. Taken as a whole, the essays highlight the
contingent, fluid, and ambiguous nature of 'Northenness', its
complex and shifting interplay with feelings of localism and
nationalism, and the profound, if varying, influences of class,
race, gender, sport, tourism, music and political and economic
structures and concerns upon 'northern' identities. This book will
hold a general appeal to readers interested in the issue of social
identity, especially in its regional and local manifestations and
engagements. It will find a wide readership across the humanities
and social sciences. It should be compulsory reading for those in
New Labour addressing the issue of the 'North-South divide'.
Since the 2007-8 financial crisis and its aftershocks,
international capitalism has once again been in crisis. The crisis
has been particularly marked in the UK and its outcome is currently
unclear. Based upon a wealth of sources, from newspapers, journals,
government, political party and polling organisation publications,
as well as archival and secondary material, Neville Kirk examines
the systemic crisis facing the nations of the UK. The book traces
the crisis from the period following the 2016 EU referendum up to
2022, a period during which the crisis intensified and became more
widespread. Kirk covers the elections of 2017 and 2019, political
fragmentation, Scottish nationalism, Brexit, the coronavirus
pandemic, continuing economic problems and conflicts around class,
gender, race and nation. Finally, the book considers competing
pathways out of the current impasse. Through his thorough
examination of the UK’s main political parties and players, Kirk
offers the reader a new and original understanding of how we
reached the present situation.
This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of
language in relation to the subject of history. The British and
American contributors put forward the idea that language is a
broadly based means of communication with contested and consensual
meanings, and that such meanings must be revealed and evaluated by
precise historical contextualisation of language and proper
attention to established rules of historical method. The essays
contend that the connections between the linguistic and the social
must be rethought. The book aims to move beyond the unproductive
fragmentation and relativism, the narrow textual range and the
literal and anti-realist readings of the postmodern 'linguistic
turn' to offer a rigorous approach to the study of language and the
subject of history.
The major aim of this book of is to make a contribution towards
filling a gap in the field of cross-national comparative labour
history. The focus rests upon organised labour's attitudes and
practices towards class, race and politics in Britain, Australia
and the USA during the era of 'new imperialism', 1880s-1914. The
book teases out similarities and differences both within and among
nations. It is an ambitious, challenging and innovative study. It
breaks new ground in terms of its subject matter and geographical
focus, the questions posed, the answers given and the range of
sources consulted. It is based largely upon primary sources drawn
from the author's extensive research in Britain, Australia and the
USA. The three essays comprising the book are published here for
the first time. The book will appeal to all those interested in the
past, present and future of the labour movement and other
progressive causes in an increasingly globalised context.
Since the 2007-8 financial crisis and its aftershocks,
international capitalism has once again been in crisis. The crisis
has been particularly marked in the UK and its outcome is currently
unclear. Based upon a wealth of sources, from newspapers, journals,
government, political party and polling organisation publications,
as well as archival and secondary material, Neville Kirk examines
the systemic crisis facing the nations of the UK. The book traces
the crisis from the period following the 2016 EU referendum up to
2022, a period during which the crisis intensified and became more
widespread. Kirk covers the elections of 2017 and 2019, political
fragmentation, Scottish nationalism, Brexit, the coronavirus
pandemic, continuing economic problems and conflicts around class,
gender, race and nation. Finally, the book considers competing
pathways out of the current impasse. Through his thorough
examination of the UK’s main political parties and players, Kirk
offers the reader a new and original understanding of how we
reached the present situation.
This is a pathbreaking comparative and trans-national study of the
neglected influences of nation, empire and race upon the
development and electoral fortunes of the Labour Party in Britain
and the Australian Labor Party from their formative years of the
1900s to the elections of 2010. Based upon extensive primary and
secondary source-based research in Britain and Australia over
several years, it makes a new and original contribution to the
fields of labour, imperial and 'British world' history. The book
offers the challenging conclusion that the forces of nation, empire
and race exerted much greater influence upon Labour politics in
both countries than suggested by 'traditionalists' and
'revisionists' alike. The book will appeal to undergraduates,
postgraduates, scholars in history and politics and all those
interested in and concerned with the past, present and future of
Labour politics in Britain, Australia and more generally. -- .
In most studies of British decolonisation, the world of labour is
neglected, the key roles being allocated to metropolitan statesmen
and native elites. Instead this volume focuses on the role played
by working people, their experiences, initiatives and
organisations, in the dissolution of the British Empire, both in
the metropole and in the colonies. How central was the intervention
of the metropolitan Left in the liquidation of the British Empire?
Were labour mobilisations in the colonies only stepping stones for
bourgeois nationalists? To what extent were British labour
activists willing and able to form connections with colonial
workers, and vice versa? Here are some of the complex questions on
which this volume sheds new light. Though convergences were fragile
and temporary, this book recapture the sense of uncertainty that
accompanied the final decades of the British Empire, a period when
radical minorities hoped that coordinated efforts across borders
might lead not only to the destruction of the British Empire but to
that of capitalism and imperialism in general. Exploiting rare
primary sources and adopting a resolutely transnational approach,
our collection makes an original contribution to both labour
history and imperial studies.
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