Making the New Europe European Unity and the Second World War [Hardcover]

This volume evaluates the notion of European Unity in a period when European identity was subjected to the destructive consequences of Nazi and Fascist domination of much of the Continent. By presenting the competing visions of transformation and reconstruction played out during the war years the book aims to provide broader-based and more complex insights into forces that shaped the post-war period than those in conventional accounts that locate the thinking about European unity only in the years after 1945.

M.L. Smithwas Professor for European Studies at a number of British universities and last served as Vice-Principal at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Peter M.R. Stirkis Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for the History of Political Thought at Durham University, UK.

List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: European Unity and the Second World WarM.L. Smith
2. The Prospects for the German Domination of Europe in the Era of the World WarsW.H. Roobol
3. The Italian Fascist New Order in EuropeP.J. Morgan
4. The Anti-Bolshevik Crusade and EuropeM.L. Smith
5. Anti-Americanism in National Socialist Propaganda during the Second World WarPeter M.R. Stirk
6. The Integration of Czechoslovakia in the Economic System of Nazi GermanyV. Prucha
7. Making the New Netherlands: Idea about Renewal in Dutch Politics and Society during the Second World WarJ.C.H. Blom and W. ten Have
8. Shaping a New Belgium: the CEPAG  the Belgian Commission for the Study of Post-War Problems, 1941-44Brigitte Henau
9. Reality Not Rhetoric: Belgian-Dutch Diplomacy in Wartime London, 1940-44Pierre-Henri Laurent
10. Political Catholicism, European Unity and the Rise of Christian DemocracyMichael Burgess
11. British Ideas of European Unity and Regional Confederation in the Context of Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1941-45David Weigall
12. The Wartimlc�