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In 1999, the historian Norman Davies predicted the breakup of the U.K. There was nothing inevitable about the union of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, he wrote in “The Isles,” and no reason to think it could withstand the competing nationalisms it contained.
Likewise the European Union. In less than 24 hours, the world will know whether Britons dismissed the warnings of countless experts -- and their own leaders -- that they risked grievous self-inflicted harm by voting to leave the 28-nation bloc.