...Beginning with the Restoration to the throne of Charles II in 1660, this contextual chapter charts the ideological opposition that emerged in England as the crown endeavoured to centralise the state. It reveals how both Charles II and James II’s attempts to make the crown independent of Parliament...

... of thinking about how national identity is formed and why it is so important. An explanation is given of how Croatian national identity was formed in the abstract, via a historical narrative that traces centuries of yearning for a national state. The book shows how the government, opposition parties...

... of interventions humanitarian or not? Rodogno Davide Rougier Antoine Stowell Ellery C Bulgarians atrocities atrocitarians massacres public opinion British Opposition Liberals humanitarian aid The great power involvement triggered by the Bulgarian atrocities was part of a wider international reaction...

...Betting was an intensely social activity, which avoided direct competition within families or communities by focusing interest on indirect competition between horses and jockeys. Betting aroused powerful emotions and strong opposition in wider British society. This chapter examines the nature...

... Franjo Tuðman and his party, it looks at alternative conceptions of identity that were articulated by opposition parties, dissident intellectuals, and the Croatian diaspora. It argues that each of these ‘political entrepreneurs’ drew upon, and offered interpretations of, the historical statehood thesis...

...Chapter 7 considers the PSOE's period in opposition between 1996 and 2004 and the problematic issue of the leadership of the party following Felipe González's resignation in 1997. It also links the material covered in the previous chapters to the more recent period during which the PSOE was led...

... formulation. In most accounts, only passing reference is made to domestic opposition. This book redresses the balance, providing a complete depiction of the opposition movement and a distinctive approach that proceeds from a ‘low-political’ viewpoint. As such, it emphasizes protest and populism of the kind...

... – leadership initiatives, ideological reconstruction, policy reappraisal and enhanced electoral appeal – and it identifies the constraints on implementing Party renewal that occurred as a result of opposition from within the Party, including the parliamentary Party and the grass roots membership. It also...

... Fianna Fáil land grabbers nationalism self sufficiency Belloc Hilaire Catholic Church Chesterton G K agrarianism Fine Gael Constitution 1937 Marxism O'Neill Brian socialism rejection of Dooley Terence Garvin Tom David Jones Graziers and ranchers The cattle economy Political opposition...

...This chapter sets out the book’s central themes, arguments and structure. Particular emphasis will be placed on the historical perspective of an entrenched culture of opposition within the consciousness of the Liverpool working-class. Captain Swing Riots de industrialisation inflation northern...

... observers and that his leadership has encountered an unusual and intense degree of internal opposition. His historical legacy as the architect of Conservative renewal remains contested, not least because his ability to manage intra-party divisions over Europe has yet to be proved. Cameron David...

...Because conflict comprises over ninety-five percent of a scene’s content and a scene will collapse without sufficient conflict, it’s important for writers to understand the difference between conflict, which is essentially two characters in opposition over a specific goal, and adversity, which...

... what initially prompted the essay. When the first version of the essay is considered in its original setting in the late 1730s and early 1740s, we learn that the essay was written in the context of the paper war between Walpole’s Court Whig administration (1721–42) and a Country/Patriot opposition...

...Opposition to the Great War took many forms. Of a wartime total of 3,964 conscientious objectors referred to the adjudicating Pelham Committee by local tribunals, 1,716 declared themselves Christadelphians and hence possessed a religious objection to the war. There existed, of course, other...

... to that of his three immediate predecessors: Michael Howard, Iain Duncan Smith and William Hague. This holistic view, encompassing this period of opposition in its entirety, aids the identification of strategic trends and conflicts and a comprehension of the evolving Conservative response to New Labour's...