Thinking Europe
a history of the European idea since 1800
- ISBN: 9781805397267
- Editorial: Berghahn Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2025
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
- Colección: Making sense of history
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 364
- Idiomas: Inglés
Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of Europe, Mats Andren interrogates the concept of integration and more recent debates surrounding European identity across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the post-war period. Applying a broad range of original sources this unique work will be key reading for students and researchers studying European History, European Studies, Political History and related fields.
Part I. Unity and Borders (1800-1914)
Chapter 1. Dreaming of unity
Chapter 2. Longing for borders
Chapter 3. Looking for common ground
Chapter 4. Performing communality
Part II. Crisis and Decline (1914-1945)
Chapter 5. Passage to a new Europe: the First World War
Chapter 6. Fearing crisis
Chapter 7. Organising for Europe
Part III. Integration and identity (1945-)
Chapter 8. Claiming European unity and a Europe of nations
Chapter 9. Elevating European awareness
