The first systematic social history of the Orange Order, based on unprecedented access to the Order's archives, and charting its path from the peak of its influence in the early 1960s to its present-day crisis.

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.

• 1: Introduction


• Part I: From Insider to Outsider, 1963-95


• 2: Cracks in the Establishment: Orange Opposition to O'Neill, 1963-9


• 3: Orangeism under Fire: Negotiating the Troubles, 1969-72


• 4: Unity in the Face of Treachery, 1972-77


• 5: Stable Rejectionism: The Smyth Molyneaux Axis, 1978-95


• Part II: Orangeism at the Dawn of the Third Millennium, 1995-2005


• 6: The Battle of Drumcree


• 7: From Victory to Defeat: Drumcree, 1996-8


• 8: Breaking the Link: Orange UUP Relations after the Good Friday Agreement


• 9: The War against the Parades Commission


• 10: Segmenting the Orange: The Future of Orangeism in the Twenty-First Century


• 11: Conclusion