Reinventing Europe: The History of the European Union, 1945 to the Present - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 135021308X ISBN 13: 9781350213081

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Synopsis

Reinventing Europe provides a thorough exploration of the history of the European Union, tracing its development from inception to recent times. It is the first book of its kind to contextualize the history of the EU within the wider frames of European and global history. The volume also breaks new ground by successfully highlighting the roles individuals, member states, transnational actors and European institutions played in both advancing and slowing down European integration in the EU. With chapters from leading academics in the UK, the US and across Europe who draw on sources in a variety of languages, the book presents a balanced and comprehensive account of this sometimes controversial Union. It is made up of three main parts which in turn cover: · A narrative survey of the EU · A historical analysis of the key institutions and policies · Critical themes and vital geographical spaces There is also a historiographical essay which handily charts the literature in the field, as well as 50 illuminating images, a range of maps, text boxes and primary source extracts, a bibliography and a useful glossary.

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About the Author

Brigitte Leucht is Senior Lecturer in German and European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the editor, along with Wolfram Keiser and Morten Rasmussen, of The History of the European Union: Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72 (2008) and, with Wolfram Keiser and Michael Gehler, Transnational Networks in Regional Integration (2010).

Katja Seidel is Lecturer in History at the University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of The Process of Politics in Europe: The Rise of European Elites and Supranational Institutions (2010).

Laurent Warlouzet is Professor of History and Chair of European History at Paris-Sorbonne University, France. He is the author of Governing Europe in a Globalizing World (2018), which explores the evolution of European economic and social policies in the 1970s and 1980s.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 135021308X
• ISBN 13: 9781350213081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Leucht Brigitte