Territory and Power in the United Kingdom: An Interpretation

by Jim Bulpitt

Overview

Territory and Power in the United Kingdom is about the nature of the UK state, where it came from and where it is going. Bulpitt sought to summarise the political code and statecraft that has helped govern the territories of the United Kingdom for much of the twentieth century, though it had its antecedents many years before. He provides an account of its emergence, operation and decline, which summarises an important phase in the United Kingdom's history and marks out why the country stood out from its continental neighbours in terms of its territorial organisation and state tradition. This ECPR Classics edition includes a new introduction by Peter John placing this important, classic work in a current context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780955248863
Publisher:	ECPR Press
Publication date:	08/01/2008
Series:	Ecpr Press Classics
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Born 1937, Jim Bulpitt studied Politics and History at the University of Exeter, followed by a MA in Politics at the University of Manchester. He helped found the Department of Politics at the University of Warwick, where he remained for thirty-four years, most of his academic career, becoming Professor of Politics in 1992. He died in 1999.

Table of Contents

New introduction   Peter John     1
Acknowledgements     17
Introduction     19
Territory and Power
Some existing approaches assessed     25
An alternative prospectus     56
The United Kingdom
The making of the United Kingdom: the anatomy of English imperialism     73
The old order challenged: the modernisation of territorial politics 1870-1926     98
L'Ancien Regime: the anatomy of a Dual Polity     120
Duality challenged: remodernisation and territorial politics 1961-79     142
The territorial economy of Thatcherism     168
Conclusions     193
Index     201