Europeanization in the Twentieth Century Historical Approaches [Paperback]

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.Preface; M.Conway & K.K.Patel Series Foreword; R.Mitter& A.Iriye Notes on Contributors Europeanization in History: an Introduction; U.von Hirschhausen & K.K.Patel PART I: EUROPE IMAGINED Intellectual Dissidents and the Construction of European Spaces, 1918-1988; J.Wardhaugh , R.Leiserowitz & C.Bailey 'A Struggle for European Civilisation': T.S. Eliot and British conceptions of Europe during and after the Second World War; J.Harris Knowing Europe, Europeanizing Knowledge: The Making of 'Homo Europaeus' in the Life Sciences; V.Lipphardt PART II: EUROPE CONSTRUCTED From Minority Protection to Border Revisionism: The European Nationality Congress 1925-1938; 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? War Experiences and the Making of Modern Europe; R.Gerwarth & S.Malinowski Modernism, Modernization, 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 Index

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