The Eurosceptical Reader

by M. Holmes (Editor)

Overview

The Eurosceptical Reader is the authoritative guide to the compelling arguments against European integration. The book sets out to dispel the myth which has grown up over the past thirty years that Britain's Eurosceptics are backward-looking, nationalistic, even xenophobic 'Little Englanders'. In reality, as this collection of articles and speeches illustrates, the Eurosceptical case has been anything other than introverted and obsessed with the past. Eurosceptics have always looked to the wider world beyond Europe not to a nostalgic British isolation. Whether from within the two main parties or from academia and journalism, the Eurosceptical case has become both intellectually powerful and politically persuasive. The all-star cast provides contemporary analysis to supplement classic contributions from Hugh Gaitskell, Margaret Thatcher, Enoch Powell, Tony Benn and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333669433
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/04/1996
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	410
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; M.Holmes - PART 1: THE VIEW FROM THE LEFT - Conference Speech (1962); H.Gaitskell - New Year Message to Constituents (1975); T.Benn - Speech to the Bruges Group (1990); P.Shore - The Labour Party and Europe (1995); C.Rowley - PART 2: THE VIEW FROM THE RIGHT - Speech at Lyons, France (1971); E.Powell - Bruges Speech (1988); M.Thatcher -Selsdon Group Speech (1994); N.Lamont - The Conservative Party and Europe (1994); M.Holmes - PART 3: EUROSCEPTICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY - Trade and GATT (1992); B.Hindley - Monetary Union (1992); P.Minford - Economic Audit of EC Membership (1992); B.Burkitt - Bureaucratic Over-Regulation (1995); C.Booker - The Common Agricultural Policy (1992); R.Howarth - Worlds Apart? (1995); B.Jamieson - PART 4: HISTORICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL EUROSCEPTICISM - National Self-Hatred and the EC (1993); K.Minogue - Churchill and Europe (1993); M.Beloff - Monetary Policy after Maastricht (1992); M.Howe - British Euroscepticism: a Guide to Foreigners (1994); L.J.Sharpe - Sense on Sovereignty (1991); N.Malcolm - Britain and the EC: the Way Forward (1993); N.Johnson - The Common Market: No Middle Way (1974); N.Marten - Index

Editorial Reviews

' A gloriously diverse collectin of articles and speeches spanning over 50 years...especially popular among those students of politics who prefer reading the speaches of Lady Thatcher and Hugh Gaitskell on Europe to listening to the agendas espoused by most of their dons.' - The European Journal

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