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Description
A controversial and devastatingly honest depiction of the demise of Europe.
The Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Douglas Murray takes a step back and explores the deeper issues behind the continent's possible demise, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks and a global refugee crisis to the steady erosion of our freedoms. He addresses the disappointing failure of multiculturalism, Angela Merkel's U-turn on migration, and the Western fixation on guilt. Murray travels to Berlin, Paris, Scandinavia, and Greece to uncover the malaise at the very heart of the European culture, and to hear the stories of those who have arrived in Europe from far away.
Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end. This sharp and incisive book ends up with two visions for a new Europe--one hopeful, one pessimistic--which paint a picture of Europe in crisis and offer a choice as to what, if anything, we can do next. But perhaps Spengler was right: "civilizations like humans are born, briefly flourish, decay, and die."
Table of Contents
The beginning
How we got hooked on immigration
The excuses we told ourselves
'Welcome to Europe'
'We have seen everything'
Multiculturalism
They are here
Prophets without honour
Early-warning sirens
The tyranny of guilt
The pretence of repatriation
Learning to live with it
Tiredness
We're stuck with this
Controlling the backlash
The feeling that the story has run out
The end
What might have been
What will be
Afterword
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Product details
Published | Jun 20 2017 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 352 |
ISBN | 9781472942241 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
Illustrations | No illustrations |
Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Lively . . . Murray's book is informed by actual reporting across the Continent, and a quality of writing that manages to be spritely and elegiac at the same time. Murray's is also a truly liberal intellect, in that he is free from the power that taboo exerts over the European problem, but he doesn't betray the slightest hint of atavism or meanspiritedness.
Michael Brendan Dougherty, The National Review
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Timely . . . Murray takes a stance that few dare to take . . . With violence erupting in Europe and America's new anti-immigration policies, this audacious work will find its readers.
Kirkus Reviews
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. . . fiery, lucid, and essential polemic.
Sohrab Ahmari, Commentary
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This is a brilliant, important and profoundly depressing book. That it is written with Douglas Murray's usual literary elegance and waspish humor does not make it any less depressing. That Murray will be vilified for it by the liberals who have created the appalling mess he describes does not make it any less brilliant and important ( . . . ) Read it.
Rod Liddle, Sunday Times
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His overall thesis, that a guilt-driven and exhausted Europe is playing fast and loose with its precious modern values by embracing migration on such a scale, is hard to refute.
Juliet Samuel, Telegraph
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This is a vitally important book, the contents of which should be known to everyone who can influence the course of events, at this critical time in the history of Europe.
Sir Roger Scruton