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Book SynopsisThis book is the first in-depth study of the debates over devolution in the four nations of the UK in the period up to 1945, exploring divergent trends and attitudes towards the principle of devolution at both local and national (UK) level. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Devolution, identity and British politics - Duncan Tanner
PART I: IMPERFECT EXAMPLES: IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND DEVOLVED GOVERNANCE
1. Scotland and Devolution, 1880-1945 - Richard J. Finlay
2. A Place Apart? Ulster, Britain and Devolution, 1886-1939 - D. George Boyce
3. Irish Home Rule as devolutionary paradigm, 1914-39 - Deirdre McMahon
PART II: UNFINISHED BUSINESS: DEVOLUTION IN WALES 1885-1945
4. Devolutionist Tendencies in Wales, 1885-1914 - Wil Griffith
5. Some Conceptions of Welsh National Identity and Governance, 1918-39 - Andrew Edwards and Wil Griffith
6. The Dilemmas of Nation and Class in Wales, 1914-45 - Chris Williams
PART III: OPPOSITION AND ALTERNATIVES: BRITAIN, THE EMPIRE AND THE CONSTITUTION
7. Devolution, Federalism and Imperial Circuitry: Ireland, South Africa and India - James McConnel and Matthew Kelly
8. Conservatives, ‘Englishness’ and ‘Civic Nationalism’ between the Wars - Matthew Cragoe
9. The Government of London - John Davis
10. How Devolution Died: The British Labour party’s constitutional agenda 1900-45 - Duncan Tanner
