Four Nations Approaches to Modern 'British' History

PART I: METHODOLOGY.- 1. A New Plea for an Old Subject? Four Nations History for the Modern Period; Naomi Lloyd-Jones and Margaret Scull.- 2. J.G.A. Pocock and the Politics of British History; Ian McBride.- 3. ‘A Vertiginous Sense of Impending Loss’: Four Nations History and the Problem of Narrative; Paul O’Leary.- PART 2: PRACTICE.- 4. The Eighteenth-Century Fiscal-Military State: A Four Nations Perspective; Patrick Walsh.- 5. The Scottish Enlightenment and the British-Irish Union Of 1801; James Stafford.- 6. Celticism and the Four Nations in the Long Nineteenth Century; Ian B. Stewart.- 7. The Beefeaters at the Tower of London, 1826-1914 - Icons of Englishness or Britishness?; Paul Ward.- 8. Regional Societies and the Migrant Edwardian Royal Dockyard Worker: Locality, Nation and Empire;  Melanie Bassett.- 9. Four Nations Poverty 1870-1914: The View from the Centre to the Margins; Oliver Betts.- 10. Wales and Socialism 1880-1914: Towards a FourNations Analysis; Martin Wright.- Index