The State: Historical and Political DimensionsRichard English, Charles Townshend Drawing on current debates on secessions within the United Kingdom, this book analyses the British State today and looks at its place in the future. Featuring original contributions from a variety of disciplines, this study tackles the problem of defining and studying the state and looks at the role the nation-state has played as the basic political unit in Europe and throughout the world. |
Contents
The state we were in parliament centralization and English state formation | 18 |
Wales and the British state The outer form of subjugation | 44 |
The state in independent Ireland | 66 |
The state and Northern Ireland | 95 |
Federal and confederal ideas in Scottish political culture | 109 |
Member states and the European Union | 143 |
State and public security | 165 |
The state and prostate terrorism in Ireland | 184 |
The British state sovereignty and identities | 210 |
Nations states and religions | 235 |
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