Great Britain by Keith Robbins
This is a timely exploration of national identity in Great Britain over nine hundred years of history. Our attitudes to the nation state are changing - national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and growing pressures for regional assemblies. In his vigorous new survey, Professor Robbins provides the background to these changing attitudes. He considers the development as well as the possible disintegration of the sense of "Britishness" among the inhabitants of Britain and investigates how - and why - they have preserved their own national and regional identities across several centuries of co-existence. Keith Robbins is Vice Chancellor of the University of Wales Lampeter. Among his many books, Longman has also published his highly successful study The Eclipse of a Great Power: Modern Britain 1870-1992 (Second Edition 1994). He is also General Editor of Longman's famous series ofProfiles in Power, with over 20 titles already in print and many more in preparation.
`The range of material consulted and cited is impressive and, throughout, there is a sense of an acute and critical intellect at work’ History
`a masterly and reflective narrative history of what came to constitute "Great Britain"’ English Historical Review
'as good an introduction to British political and ideological history as one is likely to get in a single volume' Nations and Nationalism
KEITH ROBBINS was formerly Professor of History at Bangor and Glasgow universities in the UK, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales. He has held the posts of President of the Historical Association, and Editor of History. He is the author of over 20 books, 8 edited books, and 120 scholarly articles on political, military, religious and international history, and is the general editor of six major historical series.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780582031197 |
| ISBN 10 | 0582031192 |
| Title | Great Britain |
| Author | Keith Robbins |
| Series | The Present And The Past |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1997-11-24 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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