Britain before Brexit : historical essays on Britain and Europe / Bernard Porter.
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021Description: xx, 256 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781350204751; 9781350204744; 9781350204782; 9781350204768.Subject(s): Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Europe | Europe -- Foreign relations -- Great BritainDDC classification: 327.4104Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 327.4104 POR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 019470 |
I. Introduction : Britain and the world -- Britain & Europe : 40,000 BCE to the present -- Empire -- II. Britons and Europe -- Britons in Europe : the nineteenth century -- Britain and asylum -- III. An Orcadian abroad -- Samuel Laing, traveller and philosopher -- The philistine -- IV. War in Europe -- World War I : Gallipoli -- World War II : Churchill chapter -- The home front -- On the margins -- V. Peace --- Hope and decline -- Thatcher's time -- VI. What now? -- Secrets and lies -- The battle for Brexit -- Epilogue : national identity.