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The implications of Brexit for Northern Ireland are profound, given its history and geographical position as a land border with the European Union. Four decades of sectarian violence have been replaced by a period of sustained peace, economic growth and development, yet the trenchant political divide remains. The ongoing fractious relations within the Northern Irish Assembly threaten to derail any hope the region might have on influencing the discussion and direction of the Brexit negotiations. Mary C. Murphy offers a detailed and in-depth analysis of Northern Ireland's relationship with the EU, the role the EU has played in rebuilding the region after the Troubles, and the challenges and opportunities that Brexit might offer Northern Ireland in terms of its fragile politics and economy. Northern Ireland has long occupied a greater political space than might seem warranted, given its size and relatively underdeveloped economy. This space may yet again become the most hotly contested and divisive topic in future Brexit negotiations, if it doesn't in fact prove to be the key to the successful UK withdrawal and future relations with our European neighbours.

Rethinking Right-Wing Women explores the institutional structures for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. From the Primrose League (est. 1883) to Women2Win (est. 2005), the party has exploited women's political commitment and their social power from the grass-roots to the heights of the establishment. Yet, although it is the party that extended the equal franchise, had the first woman MP to sit Parliament, and produced the first two women Prime Ministers, the UK Conservative Party has developed political roles for women that jar with feminist and progressive agendas. Conservative women have tended to be more concerned about the fulfilment of women's duties than the realisation of women's rights. This book tackles the ambivalences between women's politicisation and women's emancipation in the history of Britain's most electorally successful and hegemonic political party

Appelbaum surveys literature from 1603 to the 1660s and shows how its ideal politics were engaged in the reality of political and social struggle. He also shows how self-defeating the exercise could be. In an era of political and religious conflict, writers asserted themselves as the authors of social and political ideals. But they also constructed systems in which the assertion of utopian mastery would have no place, and an ideal politics could no longer be imagined. This study will interest political and cultural historians as well as literary critics

Book reviewed in this article:GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELANDEmilie Amt, The accession of Henry II in England: royal government restored, 1149‐1159William Hassall and Jacques Beauroy, eds., Lordship and landscape in Norfolk, 1250‐1350: the early records of HolkhamBarbara A. Hanawalt, Growing up in medieval London: the experience of childhood in historyEileen Spring, Law, land, and family: aristocratic inheritance in England, 1300‐1800Michael Zell, Industry in the countryside: Wealden society in the sixteenth centuryIlana Krausman Ben‐Amos, Adolescence and youth in early modern EnglandHelen M. Dingwall, Late seventeenth‐century Edinburgh: a demographic studyT. M. Devine, The transformation of rural Scotland: social change and the agrarian economy, 1660‐1815John Landers, Death and the metropolis: studies in the demographic history of London, 1670‐1870T. R. Gourvish and R. G. Wilson, The British brewing industry, 1830‐1980Donald E. Jordan, Jr., Land and popular politics in Ireland: County Mayo from the plantation to the land warAndrew Davies and Steven Fielding, eds., Workers'worlds: cultures and communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880‐1939Peter Razzell, Essays in English population historyPaul Johnson, ed., Twentieth‐century Britain: economic, social and cultural changeMichael Sanderson, The missing stratum: technical school education in England, 1900‐1990sJ. H. Bamberg, The history of the British Petroleum Company, 2 GENERAL Susan Pedersen, Family, dependence, and the origins of the welfare stateR. J. Overy, War and economy in the Third ReichOlivia Remie Constable, Trade and traders in Muslim Spain: the commercial realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900‐1500John Henderson, Piety and charity in late medieval FlorencePhilip T. Hoffman and Kathryn Norberg, eds., Fiscal crises, liberty, and representative government, 1450‐1789Jonathan Barry and Colin Jones, eds., Medicine and charity before the welfare statePaul R. Gregory, An economic history of Russia from emancipation to the first five‐year planClive J. Dewey, The settlement literature of the greater Punjab: a handbookR. Chandavarkar, The origins of industrial capitalism in India: business strategies and the working classes in Bombay, 1900‐1940David Pong, Shen Pao‐chen and China's modernisation in the nineteenth centuryThomas Weiss and Donald Schaefer, eds., American economic development in historical perspectiveRichard H. K. Vietor, Contrived competition: regulation and deregulation in AmericaRondo Cameron, Financing industrializationCliff Pratten, The stock marketCatherine Geissler and Derek Oddy, eds., Food, diet and economic change past and presentGraeme D. Snooks, Economics without time: a science blind to the forces of historical changeGraeme D. Snooks, ed., Historical analysis in economicsBernard Semmel, The liberal ideal and the demons of empire: theories of imperialism from Adam Smith to LeninNathan Rosenberg, Exploring the black box: technology, economics, and history

The principle of intra-party democracy underlying the so-called constitutional crisis within the Labour party in Great Britain—a struggle between the party conference and the parliamentary party over the creation of defence policy—has for some time been the subject of widespread discussion in academic journals and the "responsible press." This paper examines the difficulties within the organization of the United Farmers of Ontario when intra-party democracy resulted in a clash between the parliamentary and mass sections of the party, and attempts to relate the implications of this study to the general question of the distribution of power in parties of extra-parliamentary origin.The domination of the Legislative Assembly from 1919 to 1923 by an alliance of the United Farmers of Ontario and the Independent Labor party provided Ontario with its unique experience of "third-party" government. The suddenness of the intervention of these parties into the traditional order of Ontario's Conservative-Liberal politics was matched only by their equally rapid exit after less than four years of power. Standing as it did at the forefront of a wave of protesting third parties in the following two decades, the event is of considerable significance both for its contribution to a general understanding of the problems of third parties and for the opportunity it affords as a case study of farmer-labour co-operation. Although intra-party democracy was important for both members of the union, this paper deals with its effects on only one of the parties—the United Farmers.

Book reviewed in this article:A CONTEMPORARY CRITIQUE OF HISTORICAL MATERIALISM: VOLUME TWO, THE NATION‐STATE AND VIOLENCE, By Anthony Giddens.ARGUING FOR SOCIALISM: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS. By Andrew Levine.WOMEN OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD. Edited by J. Kirschner and S.F. Wemple.ENTERPRISE AND HISTORY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF CHARLES WILSON. Edited by D.C. Coleman and Peter Mathias.THE CRISIS OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY. By Carl Schmitt.HISTORY FROM BELOW: STUDIES IN POPULAR PROTEST AND POPULAR IDEOLOGY IN HONOUR OF GEORGE RUDÉ. Edited by Frederick Krantz.READING ALTHUSSER, AN ESSAY ON STRUCTURAL MARXISM. By Steven B. Smith.POLITICAL THINKERS. Edited by David Muschamp.MODELS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY. By Michael Barratt Brown.SURVEYS OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL SCIENCE. Edited by Don Aitkin.POLITICAL THEORIES OF MODERN GOVERNMENT: ITS ROLE AND REFORM. By Peter Self.RETHINKING MODERN POLITICAL THEORY. By John Dunn.IMPERIALISM AND AFTER: CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES. Ed. by W.J. Mommsen and J. Osterhammel.LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL OBLIGATION AND OTHER WRITINGS. By T.H. Green.MEN AND WOMEN OF PORT PHILLIP. By Martin Sullivan.COMMUNITY OF FATE: MEMOIRS OF GERMAN JEWS IN MELBOURNE. Edited by John Foster.THE GERMAN CONNECTION: SESQUICENTENARY ESSAYS ON GERMAN‐VICTORIAN CROSSCURRENTS 1835–1985. Edited by Leslie Bodi and Stephen Jeffries.DAISY BATES: THE NATIVE TRIBES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Edited by Isobel White.PADRE. AUSTRALIAN CHAPLAINS IN GALLIPOLI AND FRANCE. By Michael McKernan.THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: HISTORICAL NARRATIVES BY ABORIGINES. Edited by Luise Hercus and Peter Sutton.RECOVERY: THE POLITICS OF ABORIGINAL REFORM. By Charles Rowley.NO CONCEIVABLE INJURY: THE STORY OF BRITAIN AND AUSTRALIA'S ATOMIC COVERUP. By Robert Milliken.CURTINS COWBOYS: AUSTRALIA'S SECRET BUSH COMMANDOS. By Richard and Helen Walker.HATE ON TRIAL: THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC OPINION IN CANADA. By Gabriel Weimann and Conrad Winn.BLOCKING THE SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES.ANATOMY OF A WAR: VIETNAM, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE MODERN HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE. By Gabriel Kolko.IDEAL AND REALITY: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN MODERN CHINA 1860–1949. Edited by David Pong and Edmund S.K. Fung.MODERN CHINA, A HISTORY. By Edwin E. Moise.EAGLE AGAINST THE SUN: THE AMERICAN WAR WITH JAPAN. By Ronald H. Spector.THE VATICAN, THE BISHOPS AND IRISH POLITICS 1919–1939. By Dermot KeoghA HISTORY OF EUROPE 1648–1948: THE ARRIVAL, THE RISE, THE FALL. By Paul Dukes.THE TOTEM AND THE TRICOLOUR: A SHORT HISTORY OF NEW CALEDONIA SINCE 1774. By Martyn Lyons.FRANCOPHONIE: ORGANISATION, CO‐ORDINATION, EVALUATION. By William W. Bostock.SOWJETISCHE MILITÄRHILFEPOLITIK GEGENÜBER ENTWICKLUNGSLÄNDERN. By Joachim Krause.DER OSTBLOCK: ENTSTEHUNG, ENTWICKLUNG UND STRUKTUR, 1939–80. By Jens Hacker.SOCIALISM IN HISTORY — POLITICAL ESSAYS OF HENRY PACHTER. Edited and introduced by Stephen Eric Bronner.STORMTROOPERS — A SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, 1929–35. By Conan Fischer.TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. By Raymond Bentley.DIE GESCHICHTE DER WLASSOW‐ARMEE. By Joachim Hoffman.THE GERMAN STUDENT CORPS IN THE THIRD REICH. By R.G.S. Weber.A SOCIALIST ANATOMY OF BRITAIN. Edited by David Coates, Gordon Johnston and Ray Bush.PATRONAGE AND POLITICS IN SCOTLAND, 1707–1832. By Ronald M. Sunter.THE FAMILY IN ANCIENT ROME: NEW PERSPECTIVES. Edited by Beryl Rawson.THE THATCHER GOVERNMENT. By Peter Riddell.TRADE UNIONS AND POLITICS. By Ken Coates and Tony Topham.MASTERLESS MEN. THE VAGRANCY PROBLEM IN ENGLAND 1560–1640. By A.L. Beier.HISTORY AND HERITAGE. THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SYSTEM. By Alan Fox.THE GREAT ARCH: ENGLISH STATE FORMATION AS CULTURAL REVOLUTION. By Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer.THE AMATEUR AND THE PROFESSIONAL: ANTIQUARIANS, HISTORIANS AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND, 1838–1886. By Phillipa Levine.WRITING MARXIST HISTORY: BRITISH SOCIETY, ECONOMY AND CULTURE SINCE 1700. By R.S. NealeENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS. By Edmund Jan Osmanczyk.

"The final decades of the reign of Elizabeth I were marked by the meteoric career of her last great favourite, Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex (1565-1601), and the outbreak of bitter political divisions at Court and across the realm. This revisionist study challenges the traditional 'romantic' image of Essex as a military incompetent and political dabbler." "Studying his career between his arrival at court in 1585 and his appointment as earl marshal at the end of 1597, the book casts Essex in a new light and re-examines his role in the outbreak of factionalism in Elizabethan politics." "This study explores the forces which drove Essex's career, why true political success remained frustratingly beyond his grasp, and how his efforts to achieve this success helped to fuel the polarisation of Elizabethan politics."--BOOK JACKET

"In the wake of the publication of the Chilcot report, this book reinterprets the relationship between British public opinion and the Blair government's decision-making in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It highlights how the government won the parliamentary vote and got its war, but never won the argument that it was the right thing to do. Understanding how, why and with what consequences Britain wound up in this position means understanding better both this specific case and the wider issue of how democratic publics influence foreign policy processes. Taking an innovative constructivist approach to understanding how public actors potentially influence foreign policy, Strong frames the debate about Iraq as a contest over legitimacy among active public actors, breaking it down into four constituent elements covering the necessity, legality and morality of war, and the government's authority. The book presents a detailed empirical account of the British public debate before the invasion of Iraq based on the rigorous interrogation of thousands of primary sources, employing both quantitative and qualitative content analysis methods to interpret the shape of debate between January 2002 and March 2003. Also contributing to the wider foreign policy analysis literature, the book investigates the domestic politics of foreign policy decision-making, and particularly the influence public opinion exerts; considers the domestic structural determinants of foreign policy decision-making; and studies the ethics of foreign policy decision-making, and the legitimate use of force. It will be of great use to students and scholars of foreign policy analysis, as well as those interested in legitimacy in international conflict, British foreign policy, the Iraq War and the role of public opinion in conflict situations"--Provided by publisher

Präferierte Namensgebung für ein vereintes Europa.

Themen: Bevorzugter und abgelehnter Name für ein vereintes
Europa; eigene Entscheidung bei einer Wahl zwischen
Europäischer Gemeinschaft und Europäischer Union.

Demographie: Alter bei Abschluß der Schul- oder
Universitätsausbildung; Selbsteinstufung auf einem
Links-rechts-Kontinuum; Urbanisierungsgrad.

12, [6], 72, xix, [1] p. ; 26 cm. (4to) ; Claim of William Cunningham & Co., p. [3]-12, signed: Thomas Gordon, attorney. ; Answer to the claim, p. 1-72, signed: John Read, Jun. agent general for the United States. ; Appendix, p. [i]-xix, contains a proclamation by Virginia governor Patrick Henry, dated January 3, 1777, and an account of the trial of M'Call vs. Turner.

This book presents the history of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) in Northern Ireland from its conception in 1943, and its successor organisation, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland (ACNI). Exploring the political and social impact of cultural policy in Northern Ireland, the book illustrates how the arts developed during the twentieth century and sheds light on the relationship between politics and culture. The author takes a closer look at the responsibilities of ACNI, and examines its interaction with the unionist government, which sought to influence how the organisation distributed its grants. Spanning the outbreak of the Troubles in the 1960s and the Peace Process in the 1990s, the ACNI evolved through a period of conflict and change, and therefore this book argues that there was an undeniable link between the changing political environment and the management of the arts in Northern Ireland. The arm's length principle is analysed in relation to ACNI, examining the influence that the state had upon its management and governance. Offering a unique historical overview of the arts in Northern Ireland, this interdisciplinary book fills a gap in Irish history and presents insights into cultural policy, conflict resolution and political history