The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History by Kaufmann, Eric P.

The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199208487)

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The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History by Kaufmann, Eric P.

The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History

$120.00
The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History by Kaufmann, Eric P.

The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History

$120.00
Format: Hardcover
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Based on unprecedented access to the Order's internal documents, this book provides the first systematic social history of the Orange Order - the Protestant association dedicated to maintaining the British connection in Northern Ireland.

Kaufmann charts the Order's path from the peak of its influence, in the early 1960s, to its present-day crisis. Along the way, he sketches a portrait of many of Orangeism's leading figures, from ex-Prime Minister John Andrews to Ulster Unionist Party politicians like Martin Smyth, James Molyneaux, and David McNarry. Kaufmann also includes the highly revealing correspondence with adversaries such as Ian Paisley and David Trimble.

Packed with analyses of mass-membership trends and attitudes, the book also takes care to tell the story of the Order from 'below' as well as from above. In the process, it argues that the traditional Unionism of West Ulster is giving way to the more militant Unionism of Antrim and Belfast which is winning the hearts of the younger generation in cities and towns throughout the province.

Author: Eric P. Kaufmann
ISBN-10: 0199208484
ISBN-13: 9780199208487
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2007
Pages: 392
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.10d
By Eric P. Kaufmann
By Eric P. Kaufmann
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Eric P. Kaufmann, is Lecturer in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: the Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States (2004), editor of Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (also 2004), and co-author with Henry Patterson of The Decline of the Loyal Family: Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland (forthcoming, 2007) He has also written numerous articles on Orangeism in Scotland, Ulster, and Canada, as well as on wider issues of nationalism and ethnic conflict, and is presently working on a project examining the link between religiosity, fertility, and politics.

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