Tombs, R: This Sovereign Isle
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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: 126 x 197 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141995025
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 126 x 197 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Robert Tombs is 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 of The English and Their History in 2014, he has become a frequent commentator on contemporary issues, and is co-editor of the pro-Brexit academic website Briefings for Britain.
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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's The English and Their History means he is not easily dismissed. Last year This Sovereign Isle argued 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, then This Sovereign Isle is 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's The English and Their History means he is not easily dismissed. Last year This Sovereign Isle argued 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, then This Sovereign Isle is 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