This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe

di Robert Tombs (Autore)

Penguin Books Ltd, 2021

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The author of the celebrated bestseller The English and Their History puts Brexit in its historical context 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.

• Autore: Robert Tombs
• Editore: Penguin Books Ltd
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 222 x 144 mm
• Peso: 346 gr.
• EAN: 9780241480380

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