Publisher's Synopsis
The drive for European unification will shape the politics of the UK throughout the 1990s. The challenges will involve not merely the detail of policy making at government level, the stuff of routine political conflict, but also the ways in which we think of ourselves as political and social agents. It is likely that the decade will see the opening moves in a process which will entail the progressive reconstruction not only of familiar political debates but also our sense of ourselves as Britons. Preston?s book analyses the likely development of these processes in terms of the Europeanization, democratization and economic reconstruction of the UK and offers thereby an explanation for the deep-seated hostility shown towards Europe by the UK political classes.
