The British political elite and Europe, 1959-1984
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

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This 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
Geopolitics and Identity in British Foreign Policy Discourse

Author: Nick Whittaker

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-27

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1000916464

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This 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
Brexlit

Author: Kristian Shaw

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1350090840

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Britain'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.

The British Political Elite and Europe, 1959-1984
The British Political Elite and Europe, 1959-1984

Author: Robert Lister Nicholls

Publisher:

Published: 2020-04

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781526148063

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This book is an historical examination of the impact short-term political expediency played in the positions adopted by members of Britain's political elites in the debates over Europe. It advances the argument that many MPs failed to consider the long-term implications of membership.

The British Party System
The British Party System

Author: Stephen Ingle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1134126670

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Substantially 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
Pathways To Power

Author: Mattei Dogan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-26

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1000313042

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This 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.

A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960–1982
A Constitutional History of the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swaziland), 1960–1982

Author: Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 3030247775

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Swaziland—recently renamed Eswatini—is the only nation-state in Africa with a functioning indigenous political system. Elsewhere on the continent, most departing colonial administrators were succeeded by Western-educated elites. In Swaziland, traditional Swazi leaders managed to establish an absolute monarchy instead, qualified by the author as benevolent and people-centred, a system which they have successfully defended from competing political forces since the 1970s. This book is the first to study the constitutional history of this monarchy. It examines its origins in the colonial era, the financial support it received from white settlers and apartheid South Africa, and the challenges it faced from political parties and the judiciary, before King Sobhuza II finally consolidated power in 1978 with an auto-coup d’état. As Hlengiwe Dlamini shows, the history of constitution-making in Swaziland is rich, complex, and full of overlooked insight for historians of Africa.

Observing Government Elites
Observing Government Elites

Author: R. Rhodes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-11-21

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0230592368

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This book focuses on the everyday life of ministers and senior public servants in different countries, describing the world through their eyes. It explores how their beliefs, practices and traditions create meaning in politics and public policy making. It provides unique data on life of politicians and practical advice on how to conduct fieldwork.

One Hundred Years of Socialism
One Hundred Years of Socialism

Author: Donald Sassoon

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-07-30

Total Pages: 1006

ISBN-13: 0857715305

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On 14 July 1889, the centenary of the French Revolution, socialist parties from all corners of Europe met in Paris. On the same day in the same city, the Exposition Universelle was launched to mark the achievements of capitalist production. The two events symbolized the beginning of the epic struggle between socialism and capitalism in Europe.; In this comprehensive study of a century of socialism, the author traces the fortunes of the political parties of the Left in Western Europe. From the rise of the Bolsheviks to the fall of the Berlin wall, from the Second International through two world wars to the Cold War and the birth of the welfare state, from the working class militancy and student uprisings of the 1960s, through the revival of feminism and the arrival of "green" politics, to the reluctant embrace of market economics en route to the millennium, Donald Sassoon charts the course of socialism across 14 countries.; He shows that throughout their history the fortunes of socialism and capitalism have been inextricably linked. They have grown up side by side, each one challenging and seeking to destroy, yet nourishing and shaping the other.

The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill
The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill

Author: Mary B. Rose

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1986-06-05

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9780521323826

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Samuel Greg (1758-1834) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1766 he went to Manchester to live with an uncle. By 1782 Samuel had taken over his uncle's textile firm. He married Hannah Lightbody in 1789 and in 1796 they moved to the location of his mill in Styal, Cheshire. Descendants lived in Styal, Manchester and elsewhere in England. Includes history of the family's textile business.