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David Malouf
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Don Randall
Published online: 19 July 2012
Published in print: 01 May 2007
...This study situates Malouf within the field of contemporary international and postcolonial writing, but without losing sight of the author's affiliation with Australian contexts. It presents an original reading of Malouf, finding the unity of his work in the continuity of his ethical concerns...
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Conclusion
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Lucy Robinson
Published: 30 November 2011
... politics. Despite points of unity, like Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, overall we can trace a development along a broad continuum, with a consolidation of the themes that divide the Left from gay activism. This is a partial explanation of the state of protest and politics today, when the traditional...
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The King’s Truth, Reason of the State
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Arlette Jouanna
Published: 01 May 2015
... was no more than a desperate tactic designed to forestall Queen Elizabeth’s suspicions. Exposed to strong pressure from intransigent Catholics in his own council, and also from the Pope and Phillip II, but perhaps also moved by the secret hope of recovering religious unity more quickly than he had expected...
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Civic loyalties in the wake of unification
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Anna Saunders
Published: 04 January 2011
... maintained a critical stance towards the society of united Germany through their political behaviour and support of ‘eastern’ values. The attitudes of young people demonstrate that patriotism and civic unity cannot be imposed from above, but are instead formed through personal experiences on the local level...
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A united Ireland or nothing
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P. J. McLoughlin
Published: 01 March 2012
... a radical change among those in the North traditionally opposed to the state’. His focus on Westminster's position on the constitutional future of Northern Ireland, and his emphasis of the need for the British government's support for Irish unity would be recurring themes in his political discourse. ‘Battle...
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Staging a fightback
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Geoff Horn
Published: 31 July 2013
... was opposed by the majority of their natural allies on the Right. Influential figures, including amongst the Jenkinsite faction, favoured attempts at conciliation with the Left to ensure party unity. Taverne Dick Eden Douglas Gaitskellite s Haseler Stephen National Executive Committee NEC Social...
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Nationalist Party: division and decline, 1964–70
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Christopher Norton
Published: 31 March 2014
...This chapter charts the surge in criticism of the Nationalist Party hierarchy in the face of repeated Party failures. It identifies the key role played by National Unity, and by those on the left of the Nationalist Party, in organising the Maghery Convention at which demands for a reinvigorated...
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The politics of constitutional nationalism in Northern Ireland, 1932-1970: Between grievance and reconciliation
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Christopher Norton
Published online: 18 September 2014
Published in print: 31 March 2014
... the Nationalist Party was eclipsed by a new generation of civil rights activists, it presents an account of the diverse political parties, organisations, and activists that sought to redress Catholic grievances and pursue the nationalist political goal of Irish unity through constitutional means. The book traces...
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Clarifying division and seeking unity
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Clive L. Spash
Published: 27 February 2024
... the three main ones, capture a fuller picture of argumentation about direction and meaning and are explored. The chapter then considers the implications of these seven categories for unity and division within ecological economics. Social ecological economics takes a research position that is distinct from...
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National Unity: radicalism and renewal, 1959–64
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Christopher Norton
Published: 31 March 2014
...This chapter considers the responses of liberal nationalist opinion to the debacle of the 1959 Westminster election. It looks at the establishment of National Unity and its attempts to promote nationalism as a broader progressive secular movement which would reach out to Protestants. The clash...
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The African response
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Stephen Emerson and Hussein Solomon
Published: 12 March 2018
... ECOWAS environmental security France human security construct nation state regional economic communities RECs Southern African Development Community SADC United States African nationalism Cold War pan Africanism Nyerere Julius Organization of African Unity OAU United Nations UN United...
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Published: 01 April 2007
... English Surnames Survey Fitch Dr Marc heritage National Trust Steer Dr Francis folklore unity family history urban history landscape history folklore specialisms community information In the nineteenth century antiquarianism was an umbrella which sheltered a variety of specialisms connected...
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The birth of myths: alternatives to government formation
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Timothy Noël Peacock
Published: 01 September 2018
... of these different minority governments, from calls for institutional reform to contemplating a prospective Government of National Unity. Coalition Conservative DUP Agreement 2017 Election UK General Heath Edward Northern Ireland Parliament Rees Merlyn Social Democratic and Labour Party SDLP Wilson Harold...
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Published: 31 August 2011
... of inclusivity and consensus among Friends. It finds an answer to this question in the ways in which the Quaker model of that inward light provided conceptual underpinning for both the ‘spirit of discernment’ and the ‘spirit of unity’ by which Friends judged those whom they encountered. The chapter analyses two...
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Division and unity II: fear and corruption
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Andrew Mansfield
Published: 01 April 2015
... General Liberty Mixed Government Unity Financial Revolution Commerce Corruption Country Virtue The divisions present throughout the Stuart seventeenth century continued to dominate the opening two decades of the eighteenth century. Perceptions of the revolutionary settlement and suspicions...
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Published: 01 October 2018
... things. This does not imply that those different components did not seek to achieve some form of unity, since for practical reasons it was often felt that divergences over long term objectives should not be an obstacle to united action around short term goals. In order to better bring out these long-term...
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English teachers’ unions since 2010: ‘a teachers’ lobby divided against itself’?1
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Anne Beauvallet
Published: 01 October 2018
... a relative lack of ideological consensus among them, particularly on pensions and on alternative provision for inspections and tests. ATL and NUT had just merged at the time of writing but professional unity is still some way off since the NASUWT has been unwilling to follow the trend. Association...
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Conclusions
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P. J. McLoughlin
Published: 01 March 2012
... conviction that Irish unity was only feasible, and indeed only meaningful, if it had the allegiance of both traditions in Ireland. The SDLP's increasing predetermination towards Irish unity only made it less likely that the party would win any significant Protestant support. Austin Currie suggests...
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Cabinet Cassandra
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Geoff Horn
Published: 31 July 2013
... unionists. The EEC referendum campaign highlighted still further these growing divisions and threatened to split the Party. Prentice‘s controversial role in the campaign, with his call for national unity, brought his relations with Wilson to a head and provided the trigger for a successful challenge from...
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Labour united and divided from the 1830s to the present
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Emmanuelle Avril (ed.) and Yann Béliard (ed.)
Published online: 24 January 2019
Published in print: 01 October 2018