European Unity in Context The Interwar Period [Hardcover]

This book examines the question of European unity, from 1918 to 1939. It focuses on the diversity of the various ideas and images of unity, illustrating how seriously they were taken by political actors at the time, and on the complex interplay of ideology and interest which shaped the idea and reality of Europe in this turbulent period.European Unity in Contexttakes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of Europe, incorporating the perspectives of historians, social scientists and literary specialists and thus offers valuable insights for students and scholars in history, politics, and literature alike.

1. Introduction: Crisis and Continuity in Interwar EuropePeter M.R. Stirk
2. The Europeanism of Coudenhove-KalergiRalph White
3. Marxism and European UnityR.N. Berki
4. British Capitalism and the Idea of European Unity between the WarsRobert Boyce
5. European Ideology and European Reality: European Unity and German Foreign Policy in the 1920sPeter Kr?ger
6. Reflections on EuropaA.G. Lehmann
7. Nationalism and National Identity in the New States of Europe: The Examples of Austria, Finland and IrelandDavid Kirby
8. Authoritarian and Nationalist Socialist Conceptions of Nation, State and EuropePeter M.R. Stirk
9. Ideas for a New Order in France, Britain and the Low Countries on the 1930sM.L. Smith
10. The Crisis of Scandinavia and the Collapse of Interwar Ideals, 1938-1940Anthony Upton
11. French Personalist and Federalist Movements in the Interwar PeriodJohn Loughlin
12. Federalism in Britain and Italy: Radicals and the English Liberal TraditionJohn Pinder
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Peter M.R. Stirkis Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for the History of Political Thought at Durham University, UK.