Nationhood and identity in conservative politics

The Conservatives in Crisis: The Tories after 1997

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 182-197

  Lynch, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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