TY - BOOK AU - Gowland,David AU - Turner,Arthur ED - ProQuest (Firm). TI - Reluctant Europeans: Britain and European integration, 1945-1998 SN - 9781317878605 (ebk.) U1 - 337.4041 PY - 2014/// CY - Abingdon PB - Routledge KW - European Economic Community KW - Great Britain KW - European Union KW - Politics and government KW - 1945- KW - Electronic books N1 - First published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited; Electronic book available via the Ebook Central platform; Britain, Europe and the audit of war -- Western Union and the reconstruction of western Europe -- 'We are not ready' : Britain and the Schuman Plan -- The case for association -- The 'special relationship' and European unity -- The Commonwealth dimension -- From Messina to Rome -- On the defensive -- From application to veto -- Ancient rivalries -- Labour's retreat into Europe -- Mission accomplished -- Renegotiating 'Tory terms' -- 'Full-hearted consent' : the 1975 referendum -- Semi-detached : the Callaghan government and Europe -- More u-turns : Labour and the EC in the 1980s -- 'Megaphone diplomacy' : Thatcher and the EC, 1979-1984 -- Fatal attraction : Thatcher and the Single European Act -- 'At the heart of Europe'? -- Opting out : the Maastricht Treaty review -- Eurosceptics versus Europhiles -- 'War at last' : the beef crisis of 1996 -- Under new management : the general election of 1997 -- After Amsterdam : enlargement, employment and the Euro -- New Labour, old problems : the British presidency of 1998 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/parliamentuk/detail.action?docID=1798404 ER -