The United Kingdom

“A salient, measured, and illuminating study of history with reflections on what Britain’s past means for its present and future, highly recommended.” — Midwest Book Review John Grainger examines the long and erratic process by which the British Isles was gradually (and as it turns out, temporarily) unified over the course of eighteen centuries, and the subsequent beginnings of the process of disintegration, manifested in an independent Ireland and increasing devolution to, and nationalism in, S