Bernard Porter

Britain Before Brexit (eBook, ePUB)

Historical Essays on Britain and Europe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Why do the Brexiteers want to leave?" "Why do the Remainers want to stay?" "What exactly would a post-Brexit Europe look like?"

These questions have dominated the post- Brexit socio-political landscape. In this timely and engaging book Bernard Porter responds to these questions. Each chapter presents different historical episodes contributing to an overall understanding of what Porter calls Britain's "most important move in her national life since she risked her whole being to go to war with Germany in 1939." The book comprises a collection of well-researched and considered chapters ranging from Britain's 'asylum' policy for European refugees in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to 'terrorism' in mainland Britain, and governments responses to it.

Porter draws from a range of sources and personal experiences to investigate the cultural and social history that led us (or which specifically didn't lead us) to the decision to leave the European Union. The result is an engaging and personal analysis of Britain's distinctive 'identity', and on its former relations with Europe

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350204782
• Artikelnr.: 61342390

Autorenporträt

Bernard Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Newcastle, UK. He is a regular contributor to LRB, TLS, Literary Review, Guardian, History Today, academic journals and has lectured around the world. Alongside this, he has also appeared on national radio and television shows. He is based in Stockholm, Sweden. His book, Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (2004) won the American Historical Association's Morris D. Forkosch Prize in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface Part I: Introduction: Britain and the world
Chapter 1. Britain & Europe, 40,000 BCE to the Present Chapter 2. Empire
Part II: Britons and Europe Chapter 3. Britons in Europe: the 19th Century
Chapter 4. Britain and Asylum Part III: An Orcadian Abroad Chapter 5.
Samuel Laing, Traveller and Philosopher Chapter 6. The Philistine Part IV:
War in Europe Chapter 7. World War I: Gallipoli Chapter 8. World War II:
Churchill Chapter 9. The Home Front Chapter 10. On the Margins Part V:
Peace Chapter 11. Hope and Decline Chapter 12: Thatcher's Time Part VI:
What Now? Chapter 13. Secrets and Lies Chapter 14. The Battle for Brexit
Epilogue: National Identity Further Reading Index