Britain Before Brexit

Historical Essays on Britain and Europe

Britain Before Brexit
Bernard Porter
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h234 x 156mm - 280pg
20 May 2021 UK
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9781350204744
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"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
Bernard Porter explains how an understanding of the history of the British Empire helps to explain Britain' s fundamental ' national identity' before and after Brexit-paradoxically with the driving theme that national independence is a myth. A riveting, lucid, and highly readable book. * Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas, USA * Written with his customary panache, boldness of argument and fertile historical imagination, one of the most distinguished contemporary historians of Britain and its past empire turns his essayist eye upon the knotty question of Britain, Europe and its Brexit convulsion. Bernard Porter offers an illuminating and instructive interpretation to anyone who may still look back nostalgically to a legendary island country that never really was. * Bill Nasson, Emeritus Professor in History, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa *
Bernard Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Newcastle, UK.
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ISBN-13: 9781350204744
Published: 20 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 280

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