Based on unprecedented access to the Order's internal documents, this book provides the first systematic social history of the Orange Order - the Protestant association dedicated to maintaining the British connection in Northern Ireland. Kaufmann charts the Order's path from the peak of its influence, in the early 1960s, to its present-day crisis. Along the way, he sketches a portrait of many of Orangeism's leading figures, from ex-Prime Minister John Andrews to Ulster Unionist Party politicians like Martin Smyth, James Molyneaux, and David McNarry. Kaufmann also includes the highly revealing correspondence with adversaries such as Ian Paisley and David Trimble. Packed with analyses of mass-membership trends and attitudes, the book also takes care to tell the story of the Order from "below" as well as from above. In the process, it argues that the traditional Unionism of West Ulster is giving way to the more militant Unionism of Antrim and Belfast which is winning the hearts of the younger generation in cities and towns throughout the province.
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The Orange Order, is the most important attempt so far t o analyse the political role of Orangeism in the six counties Dominic Bryan, Journal of 20th Century British History A top-class piece of research... Meticulously put together and lucidly written...very impressive John Bew, Journal of Contemporary History
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Eric P. Kaufmann is Lecturer in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: the Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States (2004) editor of Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities (also 2004) and co-author with Henry Patterson of The Decline of the Loyal Family: Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland (forthcoming, 2007) He has also written numerous articles on Orangeism in Scotland, Ulster, and Canada, as well as on wider issues of nationalism and ethnic conflict, and is presently working on a project examining the link between religiosity, fertility, and politics.
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Eric Kaufmann's book is the most insightful in the clutch of recent publications. The Orange institution has given him access to records which have not been available to other authors and the result is that he has been able to assess membership trends, and the socio-economic factors which impact on the Institution. He shrewdly identifies the different trends which have often competed for the leadership of Orangeism, and which have given the Institution its multi-faceted character.
This is not a book for those seeking to confirm their prejudices for or against the Institution, and indeed it is emphatically an academic study, but the great detail furnished has been put to better use than in, say the last book on the Order by Rev. Brian Kennaway. While he has interviewed many of the key players, he has place more reliance on documentary evidence, and this makes for a more rounded view than the subjective opinions of other authors dealing with this subject.
Though broadly chronological, the book has identified key themes in the challenges faced by orangeism in the past forty years and its responses.
This is a rewarding read, and will be the standard work on the subject.
This is not a book for those seeking to confirm their prejudices for or against the Institution, and indeed it is emphatically an academic study, but the great detail furnished has been put to better use than in, say the last book on the Order by Rev. Brian Kennaway. While he has interviewed many of the key players, he has place more reliance on documentary evidence, and this makes for a more rounded view than the subjective opinions of other authors dealing with this subject.
Though broadly chronological, the book has identified key themes in the challenges faced by orangeism in the past forty years and its responses.
This is a rewarding read, and will be the standard work on the subject.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History
Eric P. Kaufmann
Dr. Kaufmann has performed a great service, not just to the academic world, but to the Northern Ireland community by his academic analysis of the Orange Order. Having unprecedented access to minutes of Grand Lodge and its committees, not readily open to its members, Kaufmann lays before us various trends within the Institution from 1965 to the present, carefully illustrated by charts and maps.
Using all his sociological skills Kaufmann uses statistical analysis to present the various political, religious and social trends within the Order, including comparisons to others groups, like Canadian Orangeism with which he is well acquainted, and the Freemasons.
Kaufmann quickly defines various groups within the Order as `reformers, `rebels' `conservatives', `populists' and `traditionalists'. He also used terms such as `liberal' `moderate'- all of which might prove difficult for those who see themselves in more that one category.
The difficulty in any academic research book, based on the internal records of any organization, is that it assumes that the information is correct, and that those who give interviews were not just saying what the interviewer wanted hear, for `outside consumption'. Having some experience of this I know that reports of meetings may not be a totally accurate reflection of the meeting itself, which can all too readily be glossed over as - `a frank exchange of views'.... Read more ›
Eric P. Kaufmann
Dr. Kaufmann has performed a great service, not just to the academic world, but to the Northern Ireland community by his academic analysis of the Orange Order. Having unprecedented access to minutes of Grand Lodge and its committees, not readily open to its members, Kaufmann lays before us various trends within the Institution from 1965 to the present, carefully illustrated by charts and maps.
Using all his sociological skills Kaufmann uses statistical analysis to present the various political, religious and social trends within the Order, including comparisons to others groups, like Canadian Orangeism with which he is well acquainted, and the Freemasons.
Kaufmann quickly defines various groups within the Order as `reformers, `rebels' `conservatives', `populists' and `traditionalists'. He also used terms such as `liberal' `moderate'- all of which might prove difficult for those who see themselves in more that one category.
The difficulty in any academic research book, based on the internal records of any organization, is that it assumes that the information is correct, and that those who give interviews were not just saying what the interviewer wanted hear, for `outside consumption'. Having some experience of this I know that reports of meetings may not be a totally accurate reflection of the meeting itself, which can all too readily be glossed over as - `a frank exchange of views'.... Read more ›
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