The State

by English,Richard

• ISBN13: 9780415154772
• ISBN10: 0415154774
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The idea of 'the state' has been at the center of historical and political debates in Britain and the US in recent years.The Stateoffers a comprehensive study of the whole process of state-building over the last two centuries and examines the role the nation state has played as the basic political unit in Europe and throughout the world.

Author Biography

Richard English is Reader in Politics at Queen's University, Belfast. Charles Townshend is Professor of International History at Keele University. D. George Boyce is professor in the Dept. of Politics at the University of Wales, Swansea Steve Bruce is professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen Bernard Crick is emeritus professor of Politics, University of London, and honorary fellow of Birkbeck College Mary E. Daly is associate professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin David Eastwood is professor of Social History and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea Richard English is reader in Politics at Queen's University, Belfast Ernest Gellner is William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge Christopher Harvie is professor of British Studies at the University of Tubingen Elizabeth Meehan is professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Social Policy at Queen's University, Belfast Charles Townshend is professor of International History at the University of Keele

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction	1	(17)
Richard English
Charles Townshend
The state we were in: parliament, centralization and English state formation	18	(26)
David Eastwood
Wales and the British state: `The outer form of subjugation'	44	(22)
D. George Boyce
The state in independent Ireland	66	(29)
Mary E. Daly
The state and Northern Ireland	95	(14)
Richard English
Federal and confederal ideas in Scottish political culture	109	(34)
Christopher Harvie
Member states and the European Union	143	(22)
Elizabeth Meehan
State and public security	165	(19)
Charles Townshend
The state and pro-state terrorism in Ireland	184	(26)
Steve Bruce
The British state: sovereignty and identities	210	(25)
Bernard Crick
Nations, states and religions	235	(13)
Ernest Gellner
Index	248