On Europe

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title On Europe
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Margaret Thatcher
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 111
Category/GenreHistory
Political economy
ISBN/Barcode 9780008257361
ClassificationsDewey:327.4104
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint William Collins
Publication Date 18 May 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

First published in her pioneering treatise Statecraft, the opinions and projections of the former Prime Minister on Europe remain potent and resoundingly prophetic. Margaret Thatcher foresaw the European Union as a swelling superstate, gradually eroding Britain's freedom. Irreparable and doomed, European integration did not allow for the birthright of nationhood. It was the most recent incarnation of an idea that has been tried many times before, and the outcomes were far from happy. "During my lifetime," she says, "most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it."

Author Biography

Margaret Thatcher's political career was one of the most remarkable of modern times. Born in Grantham in 1925, she rose to become the first woman to lead a major Western democracy. She won three successive general elections and served as prime minister for more than eleven years, from 1979 to 1990, a record unmatched in the twentieth century. She died in 2013.

Reviews

'A unified Europe is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt' Margaret Thatcher