Title: The British tradition of federalism
Description: Challenging orthodox assumptions concerning British federalism, The British Tradition of Federalism offers a unique revisionist critique of Britain's recent constitutional past. The central themes of Empire, Ireland and Europe provide the empirical focus of this volume. Together, they reveal a fundamental continuity of British federal ideas: a single intellectual tradition which spans the last century.

By reinstating a neglected dimension of the larger British political tradition, Burgess shows how the continuing relevance of this federal tradition serves as both the source of and inspiration for a wide range of constitutional reform proposals in the 1990s.
Subjects: European federation, Federal government, Politics and government, Fédéralisme, Union européenne, Politique et gouvernement, Construction européenne, Föderalismus, Geschichte, Federal government, europe, Great britain, politics and government, 19th century, Great britain, politics and government, 20th century, Great britain, politics and government
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century