The making of Eurosceptic Britain
Subtitle: identity and economy in a post-imperial state
By: Chris Gifford.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780754670742
Subjects: European Economic Community -- Great Britain; European Union -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-; European Union countries -- Politics and government; Great Britain -- Foreign economic relations
Description: "Gifford offers a radical interpretation of a major political issue. This book goes beyond existing narrative and institutional accounts of Britain and Europe by presenting a theoretically coherent and unique perspective on this troubled relationship. Populist Euroscepticism has become fundamental to constituting Britain and Britishness in a post-imperial context, despite membership of the European Union."

"This interesting study focuses not on outlining history or the impact of British integration on British institutions, but on the ways in which elite behaviour towards European integration should be analysed as practices and discourses that use Euroscepticism to construct Britain and distinctive British political projects. Lively and accessible, it is ideal for courses on political sociology, European studies and international relations more generally."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ([p. 151]-164) and index.
Table of contents: title: From British Euroscepticism to Eurosceptic Britain; title: The missing European rescue of the post-war British State; title: Post-imperial crisis and the rise of Euroscepticism; title: Towards a citizen's Europe?; title: Eurosceptic Thatcherism; title: The European crisis of the British State; title: Labour in power : Anglo-Europe and Euroscepticism.