This assortment makes a unique contribution to the advance of the "new British history"--which seeks to discover in a comparative framework the heritage of the nationwide entities that represent the 2 islands of the Atlantic Archipelago. The individuals signify the 4 constituent nationwide groups, and their essays supply an additional corrective to the Anglocentric bias of conventional British heritage. more often than not the ebook sheds mild on present debates bearing on "the Union" and devolution in addition to on Britain's ancient and carrying on with "Irish problem."
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