Description
| Product ID: | 9780141995021 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | This Sovereign Isle |
| Subtitle: | Britain In and Out of Europe |
| Authors: | Author: Robert Tombs |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, European history, History, Political structures: democracy, International institutions, British & Irish history, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Political structures: democracy, EU & European institutions, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 21st century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERGeography 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. THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-07-28 |