State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union

by Michael Keating

The United Kingdom has often been seen as a unitary nation-state. This book argues that it should be understood as a plurinational union in which the key elements of demos, telos, and ethos are contested.

Except in the mid-twentieth century, its territorial boundaries have been contested and the matter of sovereignty has never definitely been settled. Since the end of the twentieth century, devolution to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019884137X
• ISBN13: 9780198841371
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"