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Labour's European Dilemmas

From Bevin to Blair

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  • © 2001

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  1. Roger Broad
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Part of the book series: Contemporary History in Context (CHIC)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction: Socialism and European Unity

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 1-3

  3. Bevin and the Three Circles

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 4-17

  4. Into the Breach?

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 18-35

  5. Gaitskell and de Gaulle

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 36-53

  6. The Second Try

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 54-71

  7. ‘No Entry on Tory terms’

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 72-87

  8. Staying or Going?

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 88-103

  9. The Public’s Opinion

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 104-119

  10. Not Taking Yes for an Answer

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 120-138

  11. Withdrawal Pains

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 139-155

  12. Osmosis

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 156-174

  13. Making the Change

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 175-193

  14. New Labour, New Europe?

    • Roger Broad
    Pages 194-208

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 209-244
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About this book

For thirty years the Labour Party was wracked by conflict over membership of the European Community, swinging back and forth, pro and anti, when in and out of office. It was a conflict that helped keep the party in opposition for eighteen years until it abandoned its socialist basis under New Labour. The author as journalist and European Union official knew many of the major and minor players and brings this experience to bear.

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'The shifting attitudes of the Labour Party towards European integration between the premiership of Clement Attlee and that of Tony Blair provide a central theme of British History in the second half of the twentieth century. This lucid and well-researched survey for the student and the general reader, written by an Oxford-trained historian who later worked for both the European Commission and the European parliament, is therefore very welcome. It analyses key features, domestic as well as setting the scene for key debates on monetary and political union in the near future. It thus sheds light on Britain's post-war, post-imperial experience.' - Kenneth O'Morgan, author Britain since 1945: The People's Peace and Callaghan: a Life

About the author

ROGER BROAD graduated in Modern History from The Queen's College, Oxford. As a journalist he wrote for the Birmingham Post, Financial Times and other journals and newspapers. In 1964-73 he worked for the European Commission and in 1973-86 headed the European Parliament's UK office. With R.J. Jarrett he write he wrote Community Europe and with Virginia Preston has recently edited a symposium Moored to the Continent? Britain and European Integration since 1945.

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