Origins and Evolution of the European Union
Published on 2. March 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-19-926792-7 (ISBN)
Description
European integration is now in its sixth decade and the EU is growing in importance as a subject of historical research. This timely book brings together specially commissioned chapters in order to provide a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the origins and evolution of the EU. Written by leading scholars, The Origins and Evolution of the EU presents current scholarship on the history and historiography of the EU in an easily accessible way. The first part provides a chronological framework for the rest of the book and the next three parts explore particular events, issues and themes in the history of European integration. The final section covers the historiography of European integration.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
10 tables, 4 figures
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
667 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-926792-7 (9780199267927)
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Content
Introduction; PART I: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE; 1. Integration and Disintegration before 1945; PART II: THE POSTWAR CONTEXT; 2. Dividing Europe: The Cold War and European Integration; 3. The German Problem; PART III: SHAPING THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; 4. Liberalization, Convertibility, and the Common Market; 5. The Triumph of Community Europe; 6. Market Integration: From Coal and Steel to the Customs Union; 7. Charles De Gaulle and the European Community; PART IV: FROM EUROPEAN COMMUNITY TO EUROPEAN UNION; 8. European Integration in the 1970s; 9. European Integration in the Image and Shadow of Agriculture; 10. From Deadlock to Dynamism: The European Community in the 1980s; 11. From the Single Market to the Single Currency; 12. The European Union, the Soviet Union, and the End of the Cold War; PART V: WIDENING AND DEEPENING; 13. The Enlarging European Union; PART VI: HISTORIOGRAPHY; 14. The Historiography of European Integration