TY - BOOK ID - 85466784 TI - Continental drift : Britain and Europe from the end of empire to the rise of Euroscepticism PY - 2016 SN - 1316679918 1316680088 1316680258 1316680428 1316680932 1107775418 1107071267 1107416574 131667889X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Imperialism KW - Skepticism KW - Group identity KW - Political culture KW - Culture KW - Political science KW - Collective identity KW - Community identity KW - Cultural identity KW - Social identity KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Social psychology KW - Collective memory KW - Scepticism KW - Unbelief KW - Agnosticism KW - Belief and doubt KW - Free thought KW - History KW - Political aspects KW - History. KW - Europe KW - Great Britain KW - Relations KW - Foreign relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85466784 AB - 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. ER -