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The United Kingdom is weakening. 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 nineteenth century and beyond, drawing conclusions which shed new light on the particular history, condition, and fate of the UK.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- A CHRONOLOGY OF TWO LIVES -- INTRODUCTION: DUAL BIOGRAPHY -- 1. PRIVATE LIVES -- 2. LAND AND LAW (1879-1929) -- 3. UNITY AND MARGINALITY (1890-1910) -- 4. THE DIMENSIONS OF HOME RULE (1911-1925) -- 5. THE GREAT WAR (1914-18) -- 6. IMAGE, MEMORY AND COMMEMORATION -- ENDNOTES -- IMAGE CREDITS -- INDEX

Charles Stewart Parnell and Edward Carson both failed in their fundamental political objectives (a socially and geographically united and autonomous Ireland, as against a wholly Unionist Ireland). However, both men were the objects of great reverence during their lifetimes; and each was the focus of careful image building. Their heroic reputations were swiftly defined in regal, mystical and sexual terms: the reputation of each was commodified. Both were redefined according the needs of later generations: Parnell's alleged radicalism grew with the passing of the years, and with the establishment of an independent Ireland under bourgeois Catholic domination; the complexities of Carson's career were masked by the demands of later Unionist generations. Both men have to some extent been superseded by rival heroic reputations within their respective cultures. Parnell's standing has been challenged by the insurgents of 1916—21, while Carson's legacy has been sometimes overshadowed by that of his former lieutenant, James Craig.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Tables -- 1. Centenary Blues: 100 Years of Scottish Conservatism -- 2. Sociability, Status and Solidarity: Scottish Unionism in the era of Irish Home Rule, 1886-1920 -- 3. Patriotism, Paternalism and Pragmatism: Scottish Toryism, Union and Empire, 1912-65 -- 4. More than a Name: The Union and the Un-doing of Scottish Conservatism in the Twentieth Century -- 5. Smithians, Thatcherites and the Ironies of Scottish Conservative Decline -- 6. 'It's Only a Northern Song': The Constant Smirr of Anti-Thatcherism and Anti-Toryism -- 7. The Wilderness Years -- 8. Why no Tory Revival in Scotland? -- 9. Refashioning Welsh Conservatism - a Lesson for Scotland? -- 10. The Press, National Identity and the Scottish Tories -- 11. 'Handbagging' the Feminisation Thesis? Refl ections on Women in the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party -- 12. Conservative Unionism: Prisoned in Marble -- Index