by Linda Colley · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781781251850
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«Acts of Union and Disunion» is the historical essay by Linda Colley, published in paperback in 2014 by Profile Books, in English.
The essay begins with the Scottish independence challenge to ask what has sustained the British union and what undoes it. It reviews the unions with Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the mythology of British identity, England's fractures and the influence of movements of people and ideas on the shaping of the United Kingdom.
The work is based on a 15-episode BBC Radio 4 series and includes bibliographic references.
For readers of British history, politics and nationalism, and for those who follow the debate on national identity.
