Britain Alone - How a Decade of Conflict Remade the Nation (Stanley Liam)(Paperback / softback)

When Britain left the European Union in January 2021, it set out on a new journey. Shorn of empire and now the EU too, Britain's economy is as national as it has ever been. A decade or so since globalisation seemed inevitable, this is a remarkable reversal. How did this happen? Britain alone argues that this "nationalisation" -- aligning the boundaries of the state with its national peoples -- emerged from the 2008 global financial crisis. The book analyses how austerity and scarcity intensified and created new conflicts over who gets what. This extends to struggle over what the British nation is for, who it represents, and who it values. Drawing on a range of cultural, economic, and political themes -- immigration and the hostile environment, nostalgia and Second World War mythology, race and the "left behind", the clap for carers and furloughing, as well as
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