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03500aam a2200433 i 4500 001 108E654C177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210917010313 008 200213s2020 enk b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2020933022 020 $a 9780198840671 020 $a 0198840675 035 $a (OCoLC)1137198216 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d MNN $d OCLCO $d GYG $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a e------ $a e------ 050 00 $a D1065.G7 $b W335 2020 100 1 $a Wall, Stephen, $d 1947- $e author. $4 aut 245 10 $a Reluctant European : $b Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit / $c Stephen Wall. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xxx, 316 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a In 2016, the voters of the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union. The majority for 'Leave' was small. Yet, in more than forty years of EU membership, the British had never been wholeheartedly content. In the 1950s, governments preferred the Commonwealth to the Common Market. In the 1960s, successive Conservative and Labour administrations applied to join the European Community because it was a surprising success, whilst the UK's post-war policies had failed. But the British were turned down by the French. When the UK did join, twelve years after first asking, it joined a club whose rules had been made by others and which it did not much like. At one time or another, Labour and Conservative were at war with each other and internally. In 1975, the Labour government held a referendum on whether the UK should stay in. Two thirds of the voters decided to do so. But the wounds did not heal. Europe remained 'them', not 'us'. The UK was on the front foot in proposing reform and modernization and on the back foot as other EU members wanted to advance to 'ever closer union'. This book tells the story of a relationship rooted in a thousand years of British history, and of our sense of national identity in conflict with our political and economic need for partnership with continental Europe. -- $c publisher's website. 505 00 $t Brave New World?. $t A Thousand Years of History -- $t The Price of Victory: The Rocky Road to Europe, 1945-1961 -- $t Second Thoughts, 1961-1969 -- $t Good Result or Bad Deal? The Price of Entry, 1970-1973 -- $t Accession, Renegotiation, Referendum, 1973-1975 -- $t The Years of the Tiger, 1975-1984 -- $t No, No, No: Thatcher Defiant, 1984-1990 -- $t One Foot In and One Foot Out, 1990-1997 -- $t New Dawn or More of the Same? Blair and Europe, 1997-2007 -- $t Brown and Cameron: Opening the Door Marked 'Exit', 2007-2016 -- $t Brave New World?. 610 20 $a European Union $z Great Britain. 610 27 $a European Union. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916630 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Foreign relations $z European Union countries. 651 0 $a European Union countries $x Foreign relations $z Great Britain. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Politics and government $y 1945- 650 7 $a Brexit. $2 eclas 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a European Union countries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01269470 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a Since 1945 $2 fast 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526015656.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=108E654C177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search