Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation
Autor Brendan Simmsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2017
'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ... this is essentially a brief history of the UK but a deliciously different one'Literary Review
Britain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in Europe's history. It has invaded and been invaded, changed sides, stood aloof, acted with both brazen cynicism and the cloudiest idealism. Every century troops from the British isles have marched across the mainland in pursuit of a great complex of different goals, foremost among them the intertwined defence of parliamentary liberty in Britain and the 'Liberties of Europe'. Dynastically Britain has been closely linked to countries as varied as Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and France.
In this bracing and highly enjoyable book, Brendan Simms describes the highlights and low-points in the Euro-British encounter, from the Dark Ages to the present. The critical importance of understanding this history is shown in the final chapter, which dramatizes the issues around British relations with the European Union.Britain's Europeis a vital intervention for our times.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141983905
ISBN-10: 0141983906
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141983906
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Brendan
Simms
is
the
author
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the
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of
International
Relations
at
the
University
of
Cambridge.
Recenzii
Entertaining
and
cogently
argued...
an
eloquent
argument
A dazzling perspective on the current EU referendum debate
Like all truly stimulating and original works, this is a book worth reading even if one ultimately disagrees with the author's conclusions, or if the time is not yet ripe for their realisation
Entertaining
With supreme confidence, Simms distils 1,000 years of history into a simple constant: Britain's role has always been to prevent the domination of the Continent by a single power...Britain, in other words, has always been part of Europe. To deny that fact is to ignore the past.
In his spirited new book, "Britain's Europe", Brendan Simms, a historian at Cambridge University, argues that the whole notion of an island story is wrong. Britain's history, he says, is above all about continental Europe...Mr Simms makes a powerful case.
His book aims to demonstrate that the history of the British isles has never been an isolated one, and that "our island story" has always, in reality, been continental.
A fascinating, engaging book, which exemplifies how a balanced and mature long-term historical perspective might have informed present-day political policy
Wide-ranging and thoughtful... a timely and important study that places Brexit and the difficulties of the EU in an illuminating historical context.
A dazzling perspective on the current EU referendum debate
Like all truly stimulating and original works, this is a book worth reading even if one ultimately disagrees with the author's conclusions, or if the time is not yet ripe for their realisation
Entertaining
With supreme confidence, Simms distils 1,000 years of history into a simple constant: Britain's role has always been to prevent the domination of the Continent by a single power...Britain, in other words, has always been part of Europe. To deny that fact is to ignore the past.
In his spirited new book, "Britain's Europe", Brendan Simms, a historian at Cambridge University, argues that the whole notion of an island story is wrong. Britain's history, he says, is above all about continental Europe...Mr Simms makes a powerful case.
His book aims to demonstrate that the history of the British isles has never been an isolated one, and that "our island story" has always, in reality, been continental.
A fascinating, engaging book, which exemplifies how a balanced and mature long-term historical perspective might have informed present-day political policy
Wide-ranging and thoughtful... a timely and important study that places Brexit and the difficulties of the EU in an illuminating historical context.