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| Author | : Martin Upham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2017-05-18 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780993454974 |
Explains the complexities of British identity as expressed in politics, education, the economy, law, culture, sport, religion and social attitudes. For international and UK students taking courses covering British society and culture and the general reader wishing to understand a country divided by Brexit.The 2016 EU referendum underlined Britain's differences from its continental neighbours. But it also demonstrated how this 'united' kingdom is in many ways very disunited. England and Wales voted one way, Northern Ireland and Scotland the other; and within England the provinces voted against London. Such divisions are nothing new. Clashing interests and identities are expressed in every aspect of British history and contemporary life. Author Martin Upham spent many years explaining the complexities of British identity to Americans 'studying abroad' in London, where he was the director of AHA International (now GEO). This book is based on that experience. The result is a fascinating expedition that will entertain and educate not just students of British society and culture and those coming from abroad but also general readers concerned about the state of Britain − whether they are Brexiters or Remainers.Illustrated throughout.
| Author | : Hugh Chisholm |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1090 |
| Release | : 1910 |
| Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
| ISBN | : |
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
| Author | : Sir Ernest Barker |
| Publisher | : London ; New York : Oxford U.P. |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 1942 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Halford John Mackinder |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2020-12-22 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9781945934971 |
Britain and the British Seas, which included the first comprehensive geomorphology of the British Isles, is one of Halford Mackinder's major works and a classic in regional geography.
| Author | : Thom Brooks |
| Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2016-05-24 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1785900153 |
From Syrian asylum seekers to super-rich foreign investors, immigration is one of the most controversial issues facing Britain today. Politicians kick the subject from one election to the next with energetic but ineffectual promises to 'crack down', while newspaper editors plaster it across front pages. But few know the truth behind the headlines; indeed, the almost daily changes to our complex immigration laws pile up so quickly that even the officials in charge struggle to keep up. In this clear, concise guide, Thom Brooks, one of the UK's leading experts on British citizenship - and a newly initiated British citizen himself - deftly navigates the perennially thorny path, exploding myths and exposing absurdities along the way. Ranging from how to test for 'Britishness' to how to tackle EU 'free movement', Becoming British explores how UK immigration really works - and sparks a long-overdue debate about how it should work. Combining expert analysis with a blistering critique of the failings of successive governments, this is the definitive guide to one of the most hotly disputed issues in the UK today. Wherever you stand on the immigration debate, Brooks's wryly observed account is the essential road map.
| Author | : Richard Gott |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 577 |
| Release | : 2022-01-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1839764228 |
A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empire As the call for a new understanding of our national history grows louder, Britain’s Empire turns the received imperial story on its head. Richard Gott recounts the long-overlooked narrative of resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood up to the might of the Empire. In a story of almost continuous colonialist violence, Britain’s crimes unspool from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the Indian Mutiny, spanning the globe from Ireland to Australia. Capturing events from the perspective of the colonised, Gott unearths the all-but-forgotten stories excluded from mainstream histories.
| Author | : Rieko Karatani |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2004-08-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1135762317 |
Unlike many nations Britain had not developed a national citizenship by the 20th century. Instead belonging in Britain was merely a function of allegiance to the Crown. This lack of definition was seen as beneficial. This title explores the implications of such vagueness as a new millennium begins.
| Author | : Nadine El-Enany |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2020-02-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1526145448 |
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial through immigration and nationality laws passed in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Britain cut itself off symbolically and physically from its colonies and the Commonwealth, taking with it what it had plundered. This imperial vanishing act cast Britain's colonial history into the shadows. The British Empire, about which Britons know little, can be remembered fondly as a moment of past glory, as a gift once given to the world. Meanwhile immigration laws are justified on the basis that they keep the undeserving hordes out. In fact, immigration laws are acts of colonial seizure and violence. They obstruct the vast majority of racialised people from accessing colonial wealth amassed in the course of colonial conquest. Regardless of what the law, media and political discourse dictate, people with personal, ancestral or geographical links to colonialism, or those existing under the weight of its legacy of race and racism, have every right to come to Britain and take back what is theirs.
| Author | : Nicolas Barker |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Library resources |
| ISBN | : 9780712304092 |
In this highly-illustrated account, Nicolas Barker reveals the history of the British Library's treasure house of books and manuscripts. The Library's holdings cover collections spanning almost three millennia, from the establishment of the British Museum, which brought together the libraries of Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Robert Cotton and Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, to the foundation of the British Library in 1973 and to some outstanding acquisitions of the present day.
| Author | : Andrew Gamble |
| Publisher | : Red Globe Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1994-09-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0333614410 |
This is an account of Britain's rise and fall, and an introduction to the main explanations of decline and political strategies for reversing it. The book has been updated and has a new concluding chapter which assesses the state of debate and the British economy after the Thatcher decade.
