LEADER 04243 am 2200745 n 450 001 9910214936903321 005 20170113 010 $a2-86906-481-0 024 7 $a10.4000/books.pufr.4029 035 $a(CKB)3710000001633342 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-pufr-4029 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/42359 035 $a(PPN)202672336 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001633342 100 $a20170601j|||||||| ||| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auu||||||m|||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBonds of Union $ePractices and Representations of Political Union in the United Kingdom (18th-20th centuries) /$fIsabelle Bour, Antoine Mioche 210 $aTours $cPresses universitaires François-Rabelais$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (206 p.) 311 $a2-86906-219-2 330 $aThe appearance and development of a "Four Nations" slant on British history over the last two decades has in many ways pointed up "the Union" as an essential component of the national history or histories of the British Isles. "Four Nations" historians, however, have tended to focus exclusively on the United Kingdom as the core of either a nascent or a now defunct Empire. History is variously invoked to account for the emergence of the British dynastic state, explain its (to some) puzzling endurance, and not infrequently to assert or at least suggest its necessary demise in a world of nation states. By stressing the need for a multi-contextual approach, and casting union strictly as a process?something that is either in the making, or unravelling?"Four Nations" historians have thus paradoxically obscured the fact that union has served for several centuries to conceptualise and accommodate diversity in unity, not just in Britain, but in the wider British world. The essays in this volume, originally presented in June 2003 at a conference hosted by the University of Tours, therefore seek to move beyond the simplistic historiographical and political alternatives of union and dis-union to treat both the Union and union more generally as cultural as well as constitutional and historical constructs, well calculated to articulate separateness and help people make sense both of themselves and of their differences. Union is here approached from three key directions?the Churches, the Nation and the Constitution, all central since the seventeenth century to the question of unity and regional/national identities in the British metropole and Empire?and from three complementary angles?historical, legal and literary. From this perspective, it is hoped that union will be seen to provide a key to a fuller and more balanced, if not uncritical, understanding of a metropolitan and imperial British world of overlapping and sometimes conflicting national self-perceptions. 606 $aHistory 606 $aPolitical Science Public Admin. & Development 606 $aGrande-Bretagne 606 $apolitique 606 $agouvernance 606 $areprésentation 606 $aGreat Britain 606 $apolitics 606 $arepresentation 606 $agovernance 610 $agouvernance 610 $apolitique 610 $areprésentation 610 $aGrande-Bretagne 615 4$aHistory 615 4$aPolitical Science Public Admin. & Development 615 4$aGrande-Bretagne 615 4$apolitique 615 4$agouvernance 615 4$areprésentation 615 4$aGreat Britain 615 4$apolitics 615 4$arepresentation 615 4$agovernance 700 $aBour$b Isabelle$01106906 701 $aBrown$b Stewart J$01290549 701 $aClark$b J. C. D$0153881 701 $aCraig$b Cairns$0201219 701 $aFoster$b Roy$0528417 701 $aGraves$b Matthew$01290550 701 $aMioche$b Antoine$0649359 701 $aPelletier$b Martine$01284842 701 $aTierney$b Stephen$0262312 701 $aBour$b Isabelle$01106906 701 $aMioche$b Antoine$0649359 801 0$bFR-FrMaCLE 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910214936903321 996 $aBonds of Union$93021534 997 $aUNINA