| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Paul Ward. Unionism in the United Kingdom, 1918–1974. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. Pp. xi, 243. $85.00.

As Paul Ward rightly suggests, the story of the development of separate nationalisms within the British Isles is all too often seen from a teleological perspective, the inevitable resurgence of Scottishness and Welshness as Britain lost an empire but did not quickly "find a role" (as Dean Acheson famously put it in the 1960s). In the year in which England's participation in the soccer World Cup led to English cities (and especially their public houses) being awash with the red-and-white crosses of St. George, a flag that has had no official status since 1707, it is all to easy to accept such a view, even with respect to the English, never mind the smaller national groups which combined into the United Kingdom from 1536 onwards. Yet, for several centuries, unionism—that is to say, the active endorsement of a united nationality within a single kingdom—was a positive creed as well as the default assumption, actively endorsed indeed by Scots, Welsh, and Irish public figures, as well as by anglicizing colonizers and an English majority population.

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