British national identity and opposition to membership of Europe, 1961–63
Title | British national identity and opposition to membership of Europe, 1961–63 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Dewey |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 1558 |
Release | 2013-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1847797296 |
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the opponents of Britain’s first attempt to join the European Economic Community (EEC), between the announcement of Harold Macmillan’s new policy initiative in July 1961 and General de Gaulle’s veto of Britain’s application for membership in January 1963. In particular, this study examines the role of national identity in shaping both the formulation and articulation of arguments put forward by these opponents of Britain’s policy. To date, studies of Britain’s unsuccessful bid for entry have focused on high political analysis of diplomacy and policy formulation. In most accounts, only passing reference is made to domestic opposition. This book redresses the balance by providing a more complete depiction of the opposition movement and a distinctive approach that proceeds from a ‘low political’ viewpoint. As such, the book emphasises protest and populism of the kind exercised by, among others, Fleet Street crusaders at the Daily Express, pressure groups such as the Anti-Common Market League and Forward Britain Movement, expert pundits like A. J. P. Taylor, Sir Arthur Bryant and William Pickles, as well as constituency activists, independent parliamentary candidates, pamphleteers, letter writers and maverick MPs. In its consideration of a group largely overlooked in previous accounts, the book provides essential insights into the intellectual, structural, populist and nationalist dimensions of early Euroscepticism. The book will be of significant interest to both scholars and students of national identity, Britain’s relationship with Europe and the Commonwealth, pressure groups and party politics, and the trajectory of the Eurosceptic phenomenon.
British National Identity and Opposition to Membership of Europe, 1961-63
Title | British National Identity and Opposition to Membership of Europe, 1961-63 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Frank Dewey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 9781781702147 |
Robert Dewey provides a comprehensive examination of the forces that aligned against Britain's first attempts to join Europe 1961-63.
National Identity and Opposition to Britain's First Attempt to Join Europe, 1961-63
Title | National Identity and Opposition to Britain's First Attempt to Join Europe, 1961-63 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Frank Dewey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | European Economic Community countries |
ISBN |
National Identity and Opposition to Britain's First Attempt to Join Europe, 1961-63
Title | National Identity and Opposition to Britain's First Attempt to Join Europe, 1961-63 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Frank Dewey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 684 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | European Economic Community countries |
ISBN |
Britain, Europe and National Identity
Title | Britain, Europe and National Identity PDF eBook |
Author | J. Gibbins |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2014-10-05 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137376341 |
This study patterns national identity over a number of important historical milestones and brings the debates over Europe up-to-date with an analysis of recent happenings including the referendum on Scottish independence, the global economic crisis and the current crisis in Syria.
Britain and Europe
Title | Britain and Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Black |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2019-03-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 178738232X |
Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the closeness or distance of our political, cultural and economic links with 'the Continent'. We urgently need a dispassionate account of how Britain's history truly fits into a European context. How similar has Britain been to other European countries, and in what respects? Do Brits feel European, and have they taken an interest in events on the Continent, or has their distance from Europe led to insularity and xenophobia? Finally, how involved in European affairs has Britain been over the last several hundred years? Jeremy Black's fresh and trenchant analysis sets an increasingly politicised British history in its real European context.
Brexlit
Title | Brexlit PDF eBook |
Author | Kristian Shaw |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2021-07-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350090859 |
Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society – from Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth narratives – that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its aftermath. Reading these tensions back into contemporary British writing, Kristian Shaw coins the term Brexlit to deliver the first in-depth study of how writers engaged with these issues before and after the referendum result. Examining the work of over a hundred British authors, including Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ali Smith, as well as popular fiction by Andrew Marr and Stanley Johnson, Brexlit explores how a new and urgent genre of post-Brexit fiction is beginning to emerge.