This Sovereign Isle

Britain In and Out of Europe

This Sovereign Isle
Robert Tombs
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 224pg
7 Jul 2022 UK
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9780141995021
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Geography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland or Hungary. For most of the 150 centuries during which Britain has been inhabited it has been on the edge, culturally and literally, of mainland Europe. In this succinct book, Tombs shows that the decision to leave the EU is historically explicable - though not made historically inevitable - by Britain' s very different historical experience, especially in the twentieth century, and because of our more extensive and deeper ties outside Europe. He challenges the orthodox view that Brexit was due solely to British or English exceptionalism- in choosing to leave the EU, the British, he argues, were in many ways voting as typical Europeans.
Praise for * The English and Their History (2014) * Masterful, an enormously readable narrative of the English people from the Anglo-Saxons to the present -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times, Books of the Year * As ambitious as it is successful . . . Packed with telling detail and told with gentle, sardonic wit, a vast and delightful book -- Ben MacIntyre * The Times, Books of the Year * A stupendous achievement . . . a story of a people we can' t fail to recognize: stoical, brave, drunken, bloody-minded, violent, undeferential, yet paradoxically law-abiding . . . I found myself gripped -- Daniel Hannan * Spectator * Original and enormously readable, this brilliant, hugely engaging work has a sly wit and insouciance that are of themselves rather English -- Sinclair MacKay * Daily Telegraph *
Robert Tombs is Emeritus Professor of French History at Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John' s College. Most of his writing and teaching has been on French and European history and on Franco-British relations, for which he was awarded the Palmes Academiques by the French government. Since his foray into English history, with the publication of The English and Their History in 2014, he has become a frequent commentator on contemporary issues, and is co-editor of the pro-Brexit academic website Briefings for Britain.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780141995021
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 200g
Pages: 224

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