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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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New Labour and the European Union: Blair and Brown's logic of history: Oliver Daddow; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Images, figures, boxes and tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Context I. The New Labour project; Chapter 3. Context II. Discourse and norm entrepreneurship; Chapter 4. Interests rate: economics, influence and security; Chapter 5. Context III. A permanent state of discursive war; Chapter 6. Identities: New Labour and the Eurosceptics; Chapter 7. Context IV. New Labour, old history |
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Chapter 8. Escaping the past?Chapter 9. Projecting an image: New Labour, the EU and the wider world; Chapter 10. Conclusion; Epilogue: New Labour after Blair: British European discourses 2007-10; Appendix 1: Coding scheme; Appendix 2: A coded speech; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book explores Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's attempt to sell the European ideal to the British people. New Labour came to power in 1997 promising to modernize the country and make it fit for the twenty-first century. In foreign policy, Blair and Brown set about rethinking core components of the British national identity, especially the country's relationship to its past and its role in the world. Rebranding Britain, they argued, meant helping the British people feel comfortably at home in the European Union. What did New Labour achieve and did its European policy succeed? How did Blair and |
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Print version record |
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Blair, Tony, 1953-
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Brown, Gordon, 1951-
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Blair, Tony, 1953- fast |
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Brown, Gordon, 1951- fast |
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Labour Party (Great Britain)
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European Union
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European Union fast |
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Labour Party (Great Britain) fast |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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International relations
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Politics and government
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1997-2007. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97005399
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Great Britain -- Relations -- European Union countries
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European Union countries -- Relations -- Great Britain
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European Union countries
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Great Britain
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Electronic book
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9780719095153 |
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0719095158 |
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