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Book Acts of Union and Disunion

Download or read book Acts of Union and Disunion written by Linda Colley and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, Linda Colley analyses some of the forces that have unified Britain in the past. She examines the mythology of Britishness, and how far - and why - it has faded. She discusses the Acts of Union with Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and their limitations, while scrutinizing England's own fractures. And she demonstrates how the UK has been shaped by movement: of British people to other countries and continents, and of people, ideas and influences arriving from elsewhere. As acts of union and disunion again become increasingly relevant to our daily lives and politics, Colley considers how - if at all - the pieces might be put together anew, and what this might mean. Based on a 15-part BBC Radio 4 series.

Book Acts of Union

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  • Author : Leith Davis
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780804732697
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Acts of Union written by Leith Davis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the political relationship between Scotland and England as it was negotiated in literature after the 1707 Act of Union. It is built around five discursive encounters between Scottish and English writers: Daniel Defoe-?Lord Belhaven, Tobias Smollett-?Henry Fielding, James Macpherson-?Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth-?Robert Burns, and Walter Scott-?Thomas Percy.

Book Acts of Union

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  • Author : Dáire Keogh
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Acts of Union written by Dáire Keogh and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Act of Union united England and Ireland in 1800 under an English parliament that forbade Catholics from participating: it endured until 1922. The 14 essays of this collection consider various aspects of the Act of Union, including Catholic responses, depictions of the Act in cartoons (these are

Book Scottish Presbyterians and the Act of Union 1707

Download or read book Scottish Presbyterians and the Act of Union 1707 written by Jeffrey Stephen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing predominantly on the period between April 1706 and January 1707, the book examines the attitudes and reactions of Presbyterians to the treaty and challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the role of the church and other groups during the debate.

Book Union and Empire

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  • Author : Allan I. Macinnes
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2007-12-06
  • ISBN : 0521850797
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Union and Empire written by Allan I. Macinnes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major interpretation of the 1707 Act of Union and the making of the United Kingdom.

Book The Irish Act of Union

Download or read book The Irish Act of Union written by Patrick M. Geoghegan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines two key areas which although linked have previously been separated by historians: the passage of the Act of Union and the resignation of Pitt in 1801. Geoghegan's book covers the period from May 1798, the outbreak of the great rebellion, to March 1801 and the collapse of Pitt's ministry.

Book Basic Guide to the National Labor Relations Act

Download or read book Basic Guide to the National Labor Relations Act written by United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Navy and Anglo Scottish Union  1603 1707

Download or read book The Navy and Anglo Scottish Union 1603 1707 written by Colin Helling and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the union of England and Scotland by weaving the navy into a political narrative of events between the regal union in 1603 and the parliamentary union in 1707.This book examines the union of England and Scotland by weaving the navy into a political narrative of events between the regal union in 1603 and the parliamentary union in 1707. For most of the century the Scottish crown had no separate naval force which made the Stuart monarchs' navy, seen by them as a personal not a state force, unusual in being an institution which had a relationship with both kingdoms. This did not necessarily make the navy a shared organisation, as it continued to be financed from and based in England and was predominantly English. Nevertheless, the navy is an unusually good prism through which the nature of the regal union can be interrogated as English commanded ships interacted with Scottish authorities, and as Scots looked to the navy for protection from foreign invaders, such as the Dutch in the Forth in 1667, and for Scottish merchant ships trading with the Baltic and elsewhere. These interactions were often harmonious, but there were also many instances of tensions, particularly in the 1690s. The book illustrates both the ambiguous relationship between England and Scotland in the seventeenth century and also the navy's under-appreciated role in creating the political union of Britain.r Scottish merchant ships trading with the Baltic and elsewhere. These interactions were often harmonious, but there were also many instances of tensions, particularly in the 1690s. The book illustrates both the ambiguous relationship between England and Scotland in the seventeenth century and also the navy's under-appreciated role in creating the political union of Britain.r Scottish merchant ships trading with the Baltic and elsewhere. These interactions were often harmonious, but there were also many instances of tensions, particularly in the 1690s. The book illustrates both the ambiguous relationship between England and Scotland in the seventeenth century and also the navy's under-appreciated role in creating the political union of Britain.r Scottish merchant ships trading with the Baltic and elsewhere. These interactions were often harmonious, but there were also many instances of tensions, particularly in the 1690s. The book illustrates both the ambiguous relationship between England and Scotland in the seventeenth century and also the navy's under-appreciated role in creating the political union of Britain.

Book The Law of Trade Unions in England and Scotland Under the Trade Union Act  1871

Download or read book The Law of Trade Unions in England and Scotland Under the Trade Union Act 1871 written by Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Irish Act of Union  1800

Download or read book The Irish Act of Union 1800 written by Michael Brown and published by Gill & MacMillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together thirteen of the leading historians of the period to investigate the political, social and cultural significance of the Irish Act of Union. Marking the bicentenary of the passage of the act, the contributors combine to provide an authoritative account of the state of the historical debate. Divided in four sections, the book investigates the origins of the act, its actual passage into legislation, the political debate which surrounded the act in Ireland and beyond, and the central role played by religious considerations in its final shaping. This book provides the results of recent research into the passing of the Union, and supplies the reader with an indispensable starting-point for understanding the significance of the 1801 union of Ireland with Britain.

Book A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

Download or read book A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain written by Daniel Defoe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain

Book The Act of Union  1707

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  • Author : Archibald Mutch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1940
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 7 pages

Download or read book The Act of Union 1707 written by Archibald Mutch and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Legal Rights of Union Stewards

Download or read book The Legal Rights of Union Stewards written by Robert M. Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State of the Union

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  • Author : Nelson Lichtenstein
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2012-10-26
  • ISBN : 1400838525
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book State of the Union written by Nelson Lichtenstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, and people in a streamlined narrative of work and labor in the twentieth century. The "labor question" became a burning issue during the Progressive Era because its solution seemed essential to the survival of American democracy itself. Beginning there, Lichtenstein takes us all the way to the organizing fever of contemporary Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists. He offers an expansive survey of labor's upsurge during the 1930s, when the New Deal put a white, male version of industrial democracy at the heart of U.S. political culture. He debunks the myth of a postwar "management-labor accord" by showing that there was (at most) a limited, unstable truce. Lichtenstein argues that the ideas that had once sustained solidarity and citizenship in the world of work underwent a radical transformation when the rights-centered social movements of the 1960s and 1970s captured the nation's moral imagination. The labor movement was therefore tragically unprepared for the years of Reagan and Clinton: although technological change and a new era of global economics battered the unions, their real failure was one of ideas and political will. Throughout, Lichtenstein argues that labor's most important function, in theory if not always in practice, has been the vitalization of a democratic ethos, at work and in the larger society. To the extent that the unions fuse their purpose with that impulse, they can once again become central to the fate of the republic. State of the Union is an incisive history that tells the story of one of America's defining aspirations.

Book The Choice of Legal Basis for Acts of the European Union

Download or read book The Choice of Legal Basis for Acts of the European Union written by Annegret Engel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive discussion of conflicts between legal bases in EU law. It fills an important gap in the existing literature on the choice of legal basis in EU law by analysing the structure of legal bases and the resulting legal basis litigation in the European Union, thus identifying areas of conflict produced by overlapping competences, divergent inter-institutional interests, and inconsistencies in the courts’ judgements. While certain cases have been discussed extensively in academic literature (e.g. Tobacco Advertising, ECOWAS), there has been little analysis of the general underlying criteria and principles governing the choice of legal basis on the part of European institutions. Such an analysis has, however, become necessary in order to better understand and possibly predict judicial outcomes, and to identify flaws in the current legislative framework.

Book The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition

Download or read book The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition written by Alan Bogg and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long ascendancy of pluralism and 'collective laissez-faire' as a guiding ideology of British labour law was emphatically shattered by the New Right ideology of Thatcher and Major. When New Labour was finally returned to power in 1997, it did not, however, attempt to resurrect the pre-Thatcher preference for pluralist non-intervention in collective industrial relations. Instead, it purported to follow a 'Third Way'. A centrepiece of this new approach was the statutory recognition provision, introduced in Schedule A1 TULRCA 1992. By breaking with the tradition of voluntarism in respect of re.