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Informationen zum Autor Ben Wellings is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia Klappentext This book analyses the elite project behind Brexit, and considers its framework within the political traditions of English nationalism. Far from being 'Little Englanders', Brexiteers sought to lessen the rupture of leaving the European Union by suggesting a return to alliances with true friends and traditional allies in the Anglosphere. Zusammenfassung This book analyses the elite project behind Brexit, and considers its framework within the political traditions of English nationalism. Far from being ‘Little Englanders’, Brexiteers sought to lessen the rupture of leaving the European Union by suggesting a return to alliances with true friends and traditional allies in the Anglosphere. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: English nationalism, Euroscepticism and the Anglosphere Part I: Discovering England 2 England's dilemmas: national questions in a global era3 Locating England: national traditions and political dilemmas Part II: Three pillars of the English Anglosphere 4 Gift to the world: England's shared exceptionalism 5 Greater Britain: England's wider categories of belonging6 Great wars: England and the defence of British sovereignty Part III: England's Brexit and the Anglosphere 7 Leap into the known: the Anglosphere, England and the Brexit referendum8 Taking back control: global Britain and Brexit England9 Conclusion: Brexit as English nationalismIndex
