Orange Order - A Contemporary Northern Irish History

Zusatztext An outstanding book which functions as a vital scholarly counterpoint to more populist treatments... An impressive analysis. Informationen zum Autor Eric P. Kaufmann, is Lecturer in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: the Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States (2004), editor of Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (also 2004), and co-author with Henry Patterson of The Decline of the Loyal Family: Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland (forthcoming, 2007) He has also written numerous articles on Orangeism in Scotland, Ulster, and Canada, as well as on wider issues of nationalism and ethnic conflict, and is presently working on a project examining the link between religiosity, fertility, and politics. Zusammenfassung The first systematic social history of the Orange Order. Based on unprecedented access to the Order's archives, the book charts the Order's path from the peak of its influence, in the early 1960s, to its present crisis, and argues that the traditional Unionism of the past is giving way to a more militant form which is winning the hearts of the younger generation.

Product details

• Authors: Eric P. Kaufmann, Eric P. (Lecturer in Politics and Sociol Kaufmann
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.05.2007
• EAN: 9780199208487
• ISBN: 978-0-19-920848-7
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History: specific events & topics, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Freemasonry & Secret Societies, Northern Ireland, Freemasonry & secret societies, Secret societies, History: specific events and topics, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches