Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation.
by SIMMS, BRENDAN:
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- 0241275962
- ISBN 13
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 001.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial caricature cartoon illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black+ brown lettering,rear panel with critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - as new. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped white ink printed letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,xiiixvipp+1-302pp [paginated] includes an introduction,10 chapters and a conclusion, notes,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,separate contents and b/w maps lists/tables,a prose extract (from a William Gladstone Parliamentary speech,1871),acknowledgements as last printed page and 10pp blanks at the rear of the book.
Britain has always had a tangled,complex,paradoxical role in Europe's history.It has invaded and been invaded,changed sides,stood aloof, acted with both brazen cynicism and the cloudiest idealism.Every century troops from the British isles have marched across the mainland in pursuit of a great complex of different goals,foremost among them the intertwined defence of parliamentary liberty in Britain and the 'Liberties of Europe'.Dynastically Britain has been closely linked to countries as varied as Spain,the Netherlands,Germany and France.In this bracing and highly enjoyable book,Brendan Simms describes the highlights and low-points in the Euro-British encounter,from the Dark Ages to the present.The critical importance of understanding this history is shown in the final chapter,which dramatizes the issues around British relations with the European Union and the how,far from being a narrowly legalistic or financial concern,a referendum on continued membership raises all kinds of fascinating questions about both the United Kingdom's own horizons and what it can offer to the Union's vision of itself.Britain's Europe is a vital intervention at a moment of both great danger and great opportunity.An interesting and enlightening perspective on the EU referendum debate. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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- Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation.
- Author
- SIMMS, BRENDAN:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
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- FINE.
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- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0241275962
- ISBN 13
- 9780241275962
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- LONDON.ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN,RANDOM HOUSE,2016.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2016
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