The making of British unionism, 1740–1848
Politics, government, and the Anglo-Irish constitutional relationship
Between 1740 and 1848, an overwhelming majority of the British ruling class determined that a legislative union with Ireland was preferable to the devolved constitutional framework of the eighteenth century, succeeded in securing the enactment...Between 1740 and 1848, an overwhelming majority of the British ruling class determined that a legislative union with Ireland was...
Author/Editor: Douglas Kanter