By John Todd
This ebook presents an available and well timed research of ways the British discourse on Europe has advanced during the last 40 years. It specializes in 3 key episodes: the 1975 referendum at the UK’s endured club of the eu fiscal group; the 1992-3 debates on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty; and the more moderen proto-referendum debates sparked by way of David Cameron’s Bloomberg speech in January 2013. Using a discourse-analytical procedure, the e-book analyses how political and media voices search to delineate a British experience of self from a Continental different. Importantly, the booklet additionally will pay shut awareness to the emerging prominence of immigration concerns in the British discourse on Europe.
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