Britain alone : how a decade of conflict remade the nation / Liam Stanley.
By: Stanley, Liam [author.]
.Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022Description: 240 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781526164384; 9781526159205.Subject(s): European Union -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st century | Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 21st century | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st century | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 941.0861 Summary: "When Britain left the European Union in January 2021, it set out on a new journey. Shorn of empire and now the EU too, Britain's economy is as national as it has ever been. A decade or so since globalisation seemed inevitable, this is a remarkable reversal. How did this happen? This book argues that this "nationalisation" - aligning the boundaries of the state with its national peoples - emerged from the 2008 global financial crisis. The book analyses how austerity and scarcity intensified and created new conflicts over who gets what. This extends to struggle over what the British nation is for, who it represents, and who it values. In analysing the thread that ties the fallout of the crash and austerity, through Brexit, and to the shape of lockdown politics, Britain Alone provides an incisive and original history of the last decade of Britain and its relationship to the global economy"-- Taken from publisher's website.
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| 941.086 WHE When Gordon took the helm : the Palgrave review of British politics 2007-08 / | 941.086 WIL 5 days to power : the journey to coalition Britain / | 941.0861 EMB Embers of empire in Brexit Britain / | 941.0861 STA Britain alone : how a decade of conflict remade the nation / | 941.08611 GOS An inconvenient death : how the establishment covered up the David Kelly affair / | 941.08612 ABE How Britain really works : | 941.08612 AND F**k business : the business of Brexit / |
"When Britain left the European Union in January 2021, it set out on a new journey. Shorn of empire and now the EU too, Britain's economy is as national as it has ever been. A decade or so since globalisation seemed inevitable, this is a remarkable reversal. How did this happen? This book argues that this "nationalisation" - aligning the boundaries of the state with its national peoples - emerged from the 2008 global financial crisis. The book analyses how austerity and scarcity intensified and created new conflicts over who gets what. This extends to struggle over what the British nation is for, who it represents, and who it values. In analysing the thread that ties the fallout of the crash and austerity, through Brexit, and to the shape of lockdown politics, Britain Alone provides an incisive and original history of the last decade of Britain and its relationship to the global economy"-- Taken from publisher's website.