The author of the celebrated bestseller The English and Their History puts Brexit in its historical contextGeography comes before history. Islands cannot have the same history as continental plains. The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland or Hungary. For most of the 150 centuries during which Britain has been inhabited it has been on the edge, culturally and literally, of mainland Europe. In this succinct book, Tombs shows that the decision to leave the EU is historically explicable - though not made historically inevitable - by Bri This Sovereign Isle - Robert Tombs od authora Robert Tombs a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.