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| Author | : Paul Gilroy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2013-10-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134438664 |
This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was first published in 1987. A brilliant and explosive exploration of racial discourses, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack provided a powerful new direction for race relations in Britain. Still dynamite today and as relevant as ever, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new introduction by the author.
| Author | : Nick Groom |
| Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2012-05-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857899317 |
Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St, George, St, Andrew and St, Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and fascinating past, from the development of the Royal Standard and 17th-century clashes over the precise balance of the English and Scottish elements of the first Union Jack to the modern controversies over the flag as a symbol of empire and its exploitation by ultra-rightwing political groups.
| Author | : Gerry Hassan |
| Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 231 |
| Release | : 2019-05-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 178590387X |
The British Labour Party has at times been a force for radical change in the UK, but one critical aspect of its makeup has been consistently misunderstood and underplayed: its Britishness. Throughout the party's history, its Britishness has been an integral part of how it has done politics, acted in government and opposition, and understood the UK and its nations and regions. The People's Flag and the Union Jack is the first comprehensive account of how Labour has tried to understand Britain and Britishness and to compete in a political landscape defined by conservative notions of nation, patriotism and tradition. At a time when many of the party faithful regard national identity as a toxic subject, academics Gerry Hassan and Eric Shaw argue that Labour's Britishness and its ambiguous relationship with issues of nationalism matter more today than ever before, and will continue to matter for the foreseeable future, when the UK is in fundamental crisis. As debate rages about Brexit, and the prospect of Scottish independence remains live, this timely intervention, featuring contributions from a wealth of pioneering thinkers, offers an illuminating and perceptive insight into Labour's past, present and future.
| Author | : Ben Raab |
| Publisher | : Panini |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2009-07 |
| Genre | : Heroes |
| ISBN | : 9781846534195 |
Union Jack faces a host of deadly foes, including the vile vampire Baroness Blood, as he defends Britain from all threats. Illustrated by fan favourite John Cassaday (Astonishing X-Men).
| Author | : Michael J. Bennett |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2005-12-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807863246 |
Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the "Union Jacks," Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemployed at the time they enlisted often hailed from the urban working class rather than from rural farms and towns. In addition, most sailors enlisted for pragmatic rather than ideological reasons. Bennett's examination provides a look into the everyday lives of sailors and illuminates where they came from, why they enlisted, and how their origins shaped their service. By showing how these Union sailors lived and fought on the sea, Bennett brings an important new perspective to our understanding of the Civil War.
| Author | : Christios Gage |
| Publisher | : Marvel Comics Group |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007-07 |
| Genre | : Science fiction comic books, strips, etc |
| ISBN | : 9780785121817 |
Spinning out of Captain America, Britain's premiere super hero has mere hours to prevent multiple terrorist attacks on London by an army of super-villains! Union Jack leads Sabra and the new Arabian Knight into battle! But when his boss at MI5 risks innocent lives to bring down the enemy, Union Jack faces a tough choice - and the fate of London itself rests on his decision. Don't miss the book that redefines Union Jack for the 21st century, with stunning pencils by fan-favorite Captain America artist Mike Perkins! Guest-starring Sabra, Arabian Knight, Batroc the Leaper, Machette, Zaran, Boomerang, Crossfire, Jack O'lantern, Shockwave and more! Collects Union Jack #1-4.
| Author | : John Griffiths |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 2022-09-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 135102468X |
From 1830, the British Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. This, the fourth volume of Empire and Popular Culture, explores the representation of the Empire in popular media such as newspapers, contemporary magazines and journals and in literature such as novels, works of non-fiction, in poems and ballads.
| Author | : Paul Ward |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780861932399 |
It is generally assumed that the language of patriotism and national identity belongs to the political right, but the emergence of socialism in the 1880s shows clearly that the left also drew on such ideas in its formative years to legitimate a particular form of socialism, one presented as a restoration of an English past lost to industrial capitalism. The First World War dealt a severe blow to this radical patriotism: though the anti-war left continued to use radical patriotic language in the early years, the war degraded patriotism generally, while the Russian Revolution gave internationalism a new focus, and also threatened the dominant concept of British socialism. Moderate Labour sought to prove their fitness to govern, and concentrated on the `national interest' rather than oppositional Englishness, while the left of the movement looked to Soviet Russia rather than the English past for models for a future socialist society. PAUL WARD is lecturer in Modern British History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster.
| Author | : Austin Clarke |
| Publisher | : Ian Randle Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Authors, Barbadian |
| ISBN | : 9766371083 |
An autobiographical account of growing up in colonial Barbados during and after the Second World War.
| Author | : H. E. Marshall |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 572 |
| Release | : 2013-02-20 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1625583745 |
Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.
