This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe
Autor Robert Tombsen Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2022
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141995021
ISBN-10: 0141995025
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141995025
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Robert
Tombsis
Emeritus
Professor
of
French
History
at
Cambridge,
and
a
Fellow
of
St
John's
College.
Most
of
his
writing
and
teaching
has
been
on
French
and
European
history
and
on
Franco-British
relations,
for
which
he
was
awarded
the
Palmes
Académiques
by
the
French
government.
Since
his
foray
into
English
history,
with
the
publication
ofThe
English
and
Their
Historyin
2014,
he
has
become
a
frequent
commentator
on
contemporary
issues,
and
is
co-editor
of
the
pro-Brexit
academic
websiteBriefings
for
Britain.
Recenzii
Cambridge
professor
Tombs
offers
a
fine
first
draft
of
history
in
this
objective
explanation
of
how
and
why
Brexit
happened.
Tombs
takes
a
witty,
engagingly
ironic
approach
to
the
false
claims
of
Project
Fear.
A rare intellectual proponent of Brexit, Robert Tombs infuriates pro-Europeans-even more so because of his undeniable calibre as a historian. His impressive work on 19th-century France and 2015'sThe English and Their Historymeans he is not easily dismissed. Last yearThis Sovereign Isleargued that the Leave vote was inevitable as well as rational: the UK never fitted the European project. He understands this as a reaction to the traumas of the continent's story-traumas that Britain's distinctive journey has sometimes ducked. His conclusion is debatable, but his grasp of the premises is not. And his theme-national identity in a fracturing world-has contemporary significance far beyond these shores.
a profoundly thoughtful explanation of how Brexit happened, and why...Tombs has a witty turn of phrase and agreeably ironic style that means that he never descends into polemic ... If journalism is the first draft of history, thenThis Sovereign Isleis its penultimate draft, and the best we will have for many years.
admirably independent-minded and well argued ... should indeed be made compulsory reading for all Brexiteers
confident ... surprising and original ... and humble ... Tombs's opening chapter, putting Britain's relationship with Europe into a wider historical context, offers more insights than entire shelves of rival Brexit books.
To Remainers interested in reading a civilised & learned defence of Brexit, I highly recommend it
A rare intellectual proponent of Brexit, Robert Tombs infuriates pro-Europeans-even more so because of his undeniable calibre as a historian. His impressive work on 19th-century France and 2015'sThe English and Their Historymeans he is not easily dismissed. Last yearThis Sovereign Isleargued that the Leave vote was inevitable as well as rational: the UK never fitted the European project. He understands this as a reaction to the traumas of the continent's story-traumas that Britain's distinctive journey has sometimes ducked. His conclusion is debatable, but his grasp of the premises is not. And his theme-national identity in a fracturing world-has contemporary significance far beyond these shores.
a profoundly thoughtful explanation of how Brexit happened, and why...Tombs has a witty turn of phrase and agreeably ironic style that means that he never descends into polemic ... If journalism is the first draft of history, thenThis Sovereign Isleis its penultimate draft, and the best we will have for many years.
admirably independent-minded and well argued ... should indeed be made compulsory reading for all Brexiteers
confident ... surprising and original ... and humble ... Tombs's opening chapter, putting Britain's relationship with Europe into a wider historical context, offers more insights than entire shelves of rival Brexit books.
To Remainers interested in reading a civilised & learned defence of Brexit, I highly recommend it