Synopses & Reviews
This book presents a multi-authored study of europeanisation across the twentieth century from the First World War to the present day.
Synopsis
Europeanization is a term at the centre of contemporary political debate. In this innovative study, a team of British and German historians present the findings of their research project into how the concept and content of Europeanization needs to be understood as a historical phenomenon, which has changed its meaning during the twentieth century.
About the Author
MARTIN CONWAY is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford, UK
KIRAN KLAUS PATEL is Professor of Modern History at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy
Table of Contents
Introduction--
U.von Hirschhausen&--
K.K.PatelPART I: EUROPE IMAGINED
Intellectual Dissidents and the Construction of European Spaces, 1918-1988--J.Wardhaugh, R.Leiserowitz&--C.Bailey A Struggle for European Civilisation: British conceptions of Europe during and after the Second World War--J.HarrisKnowing Europe, Europeanizing Knowledge:The Making of Homo Europaeus in the Life Sciences--V.Lipphardt
Turkish delight? The Debates on Turkeys EU-membership as a Factor of (de )Europeanization--C.Jahr
PART II: EUROPE CONSTRUCTED
Between Dictatorship and Democracy: The European Nationality Congress 1925-1945--U.von Hirschhausen
The Role of International Organizations in Europeanization: The Case of the League of Nations and the European Economic Community--P.Clavin&--K.K.Patel
Towards a European History of the Discourse of Democracy: Discussing Democracy in Western Europe 1945-60--M.Conway&--V.Depkat
Human Rights, the Memory of War and the Making of a European Identity, 1945-1975--T.Buchanan
Europeanization in the Monetary Sector, 1968-92--G.Thiemeyer
PART III: EUROPE EMERGENT
Europeanization through Violence? Experiences of War and Destruction in the Making of Modern Europe--R.Gerwarth&--S.Malinowski Modernism, Modernisation, and Europeanization in West African Architecture, 1944-1994--W.Whyte
Die Briten kommen. British Beat and the Conquest of Europe in the 1960s--J.Davis
Nothing more Cosmopolitan than the Camps? Holocaust Remembrance and (de-)Europeanization--H.Grunwald
Conclusion--M.Conway