The British Political Elite and the Issue of Europe 1959 to 1984
Author: Robert Nicholls
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages:
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The British Political Elite and Europe 1959-1984
Author: Robert Lister Nicholls
Publisher:
Published: 2019-01-06
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781526124777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations. This evidence based account of the seminal period analyses the applications for EEC membership, the 1975 referendum, and the role of the press. Was the British public misled over the true aims of the European project? How significant was the role of the press in changing public opinion from anti, to pro Common Market membership? Why, after over 40 years since Britain became a member of the European community, does the issue continue to deeply divide not only the political elite, but also the British public? These, and other pertinent questions are answered in this timely book on a subject that remains topical and highly controversial.
The British political elite and Europe, 1959-1984
Author: Bob Nicholls
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2019-01-06
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1526124793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an original interpretation of Britain’s relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations. This evidence based account of the seminal period analyses the applications for EEC membership, the 1975 referendum, and the role of the press. Was the British public misled over the true aims of the European project? How significant was the role of the press in changing public opinion from anti, to pro Common Market membership? Why, after over 40 years since Britain became a member of the European community, does the issue continue to deeply divide not only the political elite, but also the British public? These, and other pertinent questions are answered in this timely book on a subject that remains topical and highly controversial.
Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse
Author: Nick Whittaker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-07-27
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1000916464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to examine Britain’s geopolitical identity and how it is expressed in foreign policy discourse. It demonstrates how British imperial thought, related to its island status, has remained important for British Members of Parliament in their debates of contemporary issues. It presents an exciting and provocative new reading of modern British foreign policy that decentres traditional notions of rationalism and pragmatism by foregrounding the much-neglected aspects of identity and geopolitical space. As British foreign policy-makers wrestle with how to define Britishness outside of the EU, this analysis provides a fresh perspective. It presents a much-needed historical contextualisation of long-standing concepts such as insularity from Europe and a universal aspect on world affairs. This book will be highly relevant for students, researchers and professionals that are seeking to understand British foreign policy. It will be of interest to those researching and working within geopolitics, identity, sociology, foreign policy analysis and international relations.
Brexlit
Author: Kristian Shaw
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-07-29
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1350090840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritain'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.
Born to Rule
Author: Ellis Archer Wasson
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is a study of the governing class in Great Britain and Ireland based on a complete survey of all families who participated regularly in parliament." "Using the records of the History of Parliament and the results of his own independent research, Ellis Wasson has reconstructed the shape and structure of Britain's small and remarkably stable ruling elite from medieval times to 1945. No other European governing class was so rich or able to survive into the modern era with much of that wealth and privilege intact. Wasson shows how its unique two-tiered structure of a handful of ancient families on top and a much larger second echelon broadly open to 'new men' from business helped Britain become the first modern society and prolonged the elite's supremacy."--BOOK JACKET.
The British Political Elite
Author: Wilhelm L. Guttsman
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British Party System
Author: Stephen Ingle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-03-11
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1134126670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSubstantially revised and updated, this textbook continues to provide the best introduction currently available on the British Political Party system, explaining the history, structure, actors and policies of both the main political parties and the minor parties.
Pathways To Power
Author: Mattei Dogan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-26
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1000313042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the selection process of cabinet ministers in a variety of democratic political systems. It discusses the variety of recruitment patterns in some of parliament-centered systems, federal system, centralized system, one-party-dominant system and majoritarian system.
Britain After Empire
Author: P. Preston
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-01-22
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 113702383X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough compelling analysis of popular culture, high culture and elite designs in the years following the end of the Second World War, this book explores how Britain and its people have come to terms with the loss of prestige stemming from the decline of the British Empire. The result is a volume that offers new ideas on what it is to be 'British'.
