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Yes to Europe!
The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain
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Artikel-Nr:
9781108425353
Veröffentl:
2018
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.03.2018
Seiten:
422
Autor:
Robert Saunders
Gewicht:
979 g
Format:
236x156x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Robert Saunders is a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-1867 (2011) and co-editor (with Ben Jackson) of Making Thatcher's Britain (Cambridge, 2012). He appeared in the BBC TV series The Victorian Slum (2016) and has given interviews and commentary on the BBC, CNN and a wide range of media outlets.
The first modern history of the 1975 European Referendum, ranging across 1970s Britain to assess why voters said 'Yes to Europe'.
Introduction: 'a fanfare for Europe'; Part I. Europe or Bust: 1. 'Opportunities and illusions': the road to 1975; 2. 'A device of dictators and demagogues': renegotiation to referendum; 3. 'Support your local continent!' Britain in Europe; 4. 'Better out than in': the National referendum Campaign; Part II. Themes and Issues: 5. 'The boardroom must lead!' Employers, unions and the economy; 6. 'Women and children first'; 7. 'Come to pray on Referendum day'; 8. 'No use talking about sovereignty'; 9. 'The new British Empire'; 10. 'Think of it as the common super-market'; Part III. The Unravelling of Britain?: 11. 'Ulster says yes!'; 12. Cymru yn Iwrop/ Wales in Europe; 13. 'The Scottish time-bomb'; Epilogue: we are all Europeans now.