United Kingdoms: Multinational Union States in Europe and Beyond, 1800-1925

by Alvin Jackson

The United Kingdom has been weakening, and this book helps to explain why. Alvin Jackson examines the UK in the light of the experience of similar union states elsewhere, offering the first sustained comparative study across the long 19th century and beyond. The UK was not in fact the only self-styled 'united kingdom' of the time: Jackson argues strikingly that Britain exported the idea of union through the advocacy or encouragement of other multinational...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192883747
• ISBN13: 9780192883742
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"