Colin Kidd

Colin Kidd is the author of Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland, 1500-2000.

In the LRB Archive:

• On the Window Ledge of the Union: Loyalism v. Unionism · 7 February 2013

  • Belfast 400: People, Place and History edited by S.J. Connolly
  • Ulster since 1600: Politics, Economy and Society edited by Liam Kennedy and Philip Ollerenshaw
  • The Plantation of Ulster: Ideology and Practice edited by Eamonn O Ciardha and Micheál O Siochrú
  • The End of Ulster Loyalism? by Peter Shirlow

• The Darth Vader Option: The Tories · 24 January 2013

  • The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change by Tim Bale
  • The Conservative Party from Thatcher to Cameron by Tim Bale
  • Reconstructing Conservatism? The Conservative Party in Opposition, 1997-2010 by Richard Hayton

• I met murder on the way: Castlereagh · 24 May 2012

  • Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny by John Bew

• The End of Labour? · 8 March 2012

• The Obdurate Knoll: The Obdurate Knoll · 1 December 2011

  • Then Everything Changed: Stunning Alternate Histories of American Politics: JFK, RFK, Carter, Ford, Reagan by Jeff Greenfield
  • 11.22.63 by Stephen King

• Royal Panic Attack: James VI and I · 16 June 2011

  • King James VI and I and His English Parliaments by Conrad Russell, edited by Richard Cust and Andrew Thrush

• Sabre-Toothed Teacher: Cowling · 31 March 2011

  • The Philosophy, Politics and Religion of British Democracy: Maurice Cowling and Conservatis edited by Robert Crowcroft, S.J.D. Green and Richard Whiting

• Maiden Aunt: Adam Smith · 7 October 2010

  • Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson
  • Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy: Cosmopolitanism and moral theory by Fonna Forman-Barzilai

• On the Coalition · 10 June 2010

• The Irresistible Itch: Vandals in Bow Ties · 3 December 2009

  • Personal Responsibility: Why It Matters by Alexander Brown

• Europe, what Europe?: J.G.A. Pocock · 6 November 2008

  • The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History by J.G.A. Pocock
  • Barbarism and Religion. Vol. III: The First Decline and Fall by J.G.A. Pocock
  • Barbarism and Religion. Vol. IV: Barbarians, Savages and Empires by J.G.A. Pocock

• The Calvinist International: Hugh Trevor-Roper · 22 May 2008

  • The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History by Hugh Trevor-Roper
  • Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne by Hugh Trevor-Roper

• Brown v. Salmond: The Scottish Elections · 26 April 2007

• A Matter of Caste: Alexis de Tocqueville · 22 March 2007

  • Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution by Hugh Brogan

• Pudding Time: Jacobites · 14 December 2006

  • 1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion by Daniel Szechi

• William Wallace, Unionist: the Idea of Devolution · 23 March 2006

  • State of the Union: Unionism and the Alternatives in the United Kingdom since 1707 by Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan

• Damnable Deficient: The American Revolution · 17 November 2005

  • 1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough

• ‘My God was bigger than his’: The Republicans · 4 November 2004

  • The Right Nation: Why America Is Different by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
  • Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann
  • Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image by David Greenberg
  • America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism by Anatol Lieven

• Hybridity: The Invention of Globalisation · 2 September 2004

  • Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons by C.A. Bayly

• Smut-Finder General: The Dark Side of American Liberalism · 25 September 2003

  • Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History by James Morone

• Endless Uncertainty: Adam Smith’s Legacy · 19 July 2001

  • Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment by Emma Rothschild

• Highway to Modernity: The British Enlightenment · 8 March 2001

  • Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World by Roy Porter

• Writing the History of Middle Earth: Edward Gibbon · 6 July 2000

  • Barbarism and Religion Vol 1: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-64 by J.G.A. Pocock
  • Barbarism and Religion Vol 2: Narratives of Civil Government by J.G.A. Pocock

• Clear Tartan Water: the election in Scotland · 27 May 1999

• Men in Aprons: Freemasonry · 7 May 1998

  • Who’s Afraid of Freemasons? The Phenomenon of Freemasonry by Alexander Piatigorsky

• Sing Tantarara · 30 October 1997

  • Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency by Stephen Knott
  • The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O’Brien
  • American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis
  • Slave Laws in Virginia by Philip Schwarz

• Bastard Gaelic Man · 14 November 1996

  • The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson edited by Vincenzo Merolle

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