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This Sovereign Isle
Robert Tombs
其他書名
Britain in and Out of Europe
出版
Penguin Books
, 2021
主題
History / Europe / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
History / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century
History / Modern / 21st Century
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
Political Science / International Relations / General
ISBN
0241480388
9780241480380
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1Xd7zQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.