European category: 23182 books
The Official History of Britain and the European Community, Volume III
The Tiger Unleashed, 1975-1985
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Volume III of The Official History of Britain and the European Community covers the divisions over Europe of the Labour Government (1975–79) and the controversies surrounding Britain’s relations with her EEC partners under Margaret Thatcher.
As the UK prepares to leave the European Union,...
Transnational Socialist Networks in the 1970s
European Community Development Aid and Southern Enlargement
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Transnational Socialist Networks in the 1970s argues that western European socialist parties' transnational cooperation across national borders significantly influenced politics and policy-making in what was the European Communities (EC). It focuses on the network-like informal structures that characterised...
European Constitutionalism
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
The deep economic crisis that Europe has been facing for several years can be seen as both a cause and a consequence of the political indecision with which the European Community or European Union has been living for so long now. The end-goal of this unique political project has never been clarified....
Minorities of Europeanization
The New Others of European Social Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
What are the societal effects of Europeanization? How successful is the EU’s project to create an overarching European identity representative of all its citizens, transcending national boundaries, and including those previously excluded as national minorities? This study addresses these questions...
by Stefanie Pukallus
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
This book argues that early European Commission officials envisaged an integrated civil Europe from the outset. Largely overlooked is the fact that between 1951 and 1972 there was a group of European Commission (and before that the High Authority) officials who wished to build a Civil Europe to sit...
European Modernity
A Global Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
It is often taken for granted that modernity emerged in Europe and diffused from there across the world. This book questions that assumption and re-examines the question of European modernity in the light of world history.
Bo Stråth and Peter Wagner re-position Europe in the global context...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together. - Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, December 15th 2010, before the E.U. summit on the eurozone debt crisis. These days, its impossible to read a newspaper or watch the news without seeing...
The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939
A Study of Literature and Social Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The fragility of the liberal democratic state after 1789 is illustrated in the history of the European Jews from the French Revolution to the Holocaust. Emancipation and hope of emancipation amongst the European Jewish population created a plethora of Jewish identities and forms of patriotism.
This...
Slav Outposts in Central European History
The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
While many think of European history in terms of the major states that today make up the map of Europe, this approach tends to overlook submerged nations like the Wends, the westernmost Slavs who once inhabited the lands which later became East Germany and Western Poland. This book examines the decline...
The Official History of Britain and the European Community, Vol. II
From Rejection to Referendum, 1963-1975
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This is the second volume in The Official History of Britain and the European Community, and describes the events from 1963 up until the British referendum on the Common Market in 1975.
In 1963, General de Gaulle dashed Prime Minister Macmillan’s hopes of taking Britain into the European...
European Integration
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
A fully revised and updated edition of Surpassing Realism: The Politics of European Integration**since 1945, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the present, set...
by Daniel R. Schwarz
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar
Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz’s precise and highly readable style, this critical...
The Routledge Guide to European Political Archives
Sources since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This new publication, a sister volume to the highly-acclaimed Routledge Guide to British Political Archives, provides a wide-ranging survey of the non-governmental archive sources for historians of post-war Europe. It provides, within a single volume, a rich treasure trove of resources drawn from...
Transnational Identities
Becoming European in the EU
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2004
This original work explores the increasingly important phenomenon of the formation of transnational identity. Considering the ongoing relevance of the European Union, the contributors ask a series of intriguing questions: Is a European identity possible? How are the various types of European identity...