Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107145993)

How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World War. From Indian independence, West Indian immigration and African decolonization to the Suez Crisis and the Falklands War, he uncovers the demise of Britishness as a global civic idea and its impact on communities across the globe. He also shows the consequences of this diminished 'global reach' in Britain itself, from the Troubles in Northern Ireland to resurgent Englishness and the startling success of separatist political agendas in Scotland and Wales. Untied Kingdom puts the contemporary travails of the Union for the first time in their full global perspective as part of the much larger story of the progressive rollback of Britain's imaginative frontiers.

Author: Stuart Ward
ISBN-10: 1107145996
ISBN-13: 9781107145993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2023
Pages: 550
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.67w x 1.34d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2024