Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire
- ISBN-10
- 1785904566
- ISBN-13
- 9781785904561
- Series
- Rule Britannia
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 448
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-01-15
- Publisher
- Biteback Publishing
- Author
- Danny Dorling
Description
Things fall apart when empires crumble. This time, we think, things will be different. They are not. This time, we are told, we will become great again. We will not. In this new edition of the hugely successful Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of Britain’s imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain’s status today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of our future.
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Other editions
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- 2018-10-18
- 256 pages
- Paperback
- Cornell University Press
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