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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Australia, the New Britain and the New Europe - an Identity or Three? -- I: PREHISTORIES -- 2 English Historiography and the Invention of Britain and Europe -- 3 Enlightenment, Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism -- 4 The Strange Case of British Music -- II: PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS -- 5 Perceptions of Britain in Wilhelmine Social Democracy -- 6 The Intellectual Connections between British and European Economists in the 1920s: Cambridge and Geneva on International Economic Policies -- 7 The British in the Rhineland -- III: A NEW BRITAIN IN A NEW EUROPE? -- 8 Britain, the European Union and National Identity -- 9 New Europe, New Labour: British European Policy Reconsidered -- 10 The Sources of New Labour -- 11 Public Opinion, Sovereignty and the European Union -- IV: NATION AND REGION -- 12 Scotland and the New Regionalism -- 13 An England of the Regions in a Europe of the Regions? -- 14 Regional Inequality: the New Germany and the European Union -- V: REFRACTIONS -- 15 Europhobia in the New Tory Historiography -- 16 "Grass Roots": Eric Cantona, Jurgen Klinsmann and the Europeanisation of English Football -- 17 Afterword: Studying "Britain -- Notes on Contributors

The hidden secret at the core of Michael Haneke's remarkable film of that name is Georges Laurent's denunciation of a young Algerian boy who found refuge on his relatives' farm after his own parents had perished in the infamous 1961 Paris massacre. In a bizarre return of the repressed, the memory of this betrayal invades and destroys his affluent bourgeois existence forty years later. In this article, I attempt to link this return to the "colonial boomerang" of the suburban revolts of 2005 (and 2007) and the "official" occlusion of past crimes against humanity most clearly shown in the case of Maurice Papon, in which the betrayal of France's Jews and the massacre of Algerian demonstrators merge on the grounds of the Veld'Hiv.