Arthur Aughey is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Ulster. He is a member of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, the Northern Ireland Cultural Diversity Committee and Executive Committee Member of the Irish Association. His most recently published work is Northern Ireland Politics, edited with Duncan Morrow (Longman, 1996).

• PrefaceSection One: Questions1. When Was Britain?2. What Was Britain?3. Why Is Britain?Section Two: Narratives4. The Conservative Nation5. The Labour Nation6. National PeoplesSection Three: Futures7. Modes of Self-Determination8. Missing England9. A European Conclusion?ReferencesIndex

'Logically structured, convincingly argued, and richly exemplified. An important contribution to the debate about the future of Britain'

Arthur Aughey is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Ulster. He is a member of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, the Northern Ireland Cultural Diversity Committee and Executive Committee Member of the Irish Association. His most recently published work is Northern Ireland Politics, edited with Duncan Morrow (Longman, 1996).

• PrefaceSection One: Questions1. When Was Britain?2. What Was Britain?3. Why Is Britain?Section Two: Narratives4. The Conservative Nation5. The Labour Nation6. National PeoplesSection Three: Futures7. Modes of Self-Determination8. Missing England9. A European Conclusion?ReferencesIndex

'Logically structured, convincingly argued, and richly exemplified. An important contribution to the debate about the future of Britain'

Arthur Aughey is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Ulster. He is a member of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, the Northern Ireland Cultural Diversity Committee and Executive Committee Member of the Irish Association. His most recently published work is Northern Ireland Politics, edited with Duncan Morrow (Longman, 1996).

• PrefaceSection One: Questions1. When Was Britain?2. What Was Britain?3. Why Is Britain?Section Two: Narratives4. The Conservative Nation5. The Labour Nation6. National PeoplesSection Three: Futures7. Modes of Self-Determination8. Missing England9. A European Conclusion?ReferencesIndex

'Logically structured, convincingly argued, and richly exemplified. An important contribution to the debate about the future of Britain'