Continental Drift

Britain and Europe from the End of Empire to the Rise of Euroscepticism

Bibliographic Data

ID19893664
AuthorsBenjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, Benjamin Grob‐Fitzgibbon (United States Department of State, corresponding author), Benjamin John Grob-Fitzgibbon
Year2016
Publication date2016-05-26
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueContinental Drift (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781107775411
OpenAlexW4244225029
Open LibraryOL27217866M
ISBN9781107775411
LanguageEN
Citations received20

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Churchill sought to lead Europe into an integrated union, but just over seventy years later, Britain is poised to vote on leaving the EU. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon here recounts the fascinating history of Britain's uneasy relationship with the European continent since the end of the war. He shows how British views of the United Kingdom's place within Europe cannot be understood outside of the context of decolonization, the Cold War, and the Anglo-American relationship. At the end of the Second World War, Britons viewed themselves both as the leaders of a great empire and as the natural centre of Europe. With the decline of the British Empire and the formation of the European Economic Community, however, Britons developed a Euroscepticism that was inseparable from a post-imperial nostalgia. Britain had evolved from an island of imperial Europeans to one of post-imperial Eurosceptics

Ancient history · Archaeology · British Empire · Context (archaeology) · Decolonization · Economic history · Empire · Kingdom · Political science · Politics · World War II · Australian History and Society · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · 1945 · 20th century · Europe · foreign relations · Great britain · Group identity · Imperialism · Political Culture · Relations · Skepticism

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