New Labour and the European Union: Blair and Brown's Logic of History

by Oliver J. Daddow

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719076404
• ISBN13: 9780719076404
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"