Rethinking European Integration History in Light of Capitalism [Paperback]

This book outlines the possibilities and perspectives of an intertwining of European integration historiography with the history and concept of capitalism  an issue almost completely eluded so far by the historians of this field.

This book outlines the possibilities and perspectives of an intertwining of European integration historiography with the history and concept of capitalism.

Although debates on capitalism have been making a comeback since the 2008 crisis, to date the concept of capitalism remains almost completely avoided by historians of European integration. This book thus conceptualizes capitalism as a useful analytical tool that should be used by historians of European integration and proposes three major approaches for them to do so: first, by bringing the question of social conflict, integral to the concept of capitalism, into European integration history; second, by better conceptualizing the link between European governance, Europeanization and the globalization of capitalism; and thirdly by investigating the economic, political and ideological models or doctrines that underlie European cooperation, integration, policies and institutions. This analytical encounter between European integration history and capitalism allows for a better understanding of how todays Europe resulted from a complex social, economic and political conflict that took place in part at the European level.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, the European Review of History.

Aur?lie D. Andry is Research Fellow at Universit? Paris-Saclay and a member of the ANRDFG-funded project Workplace democracy: a European ideal?: discourses and practices about the democratization of work after 1945. Her research focuses mainly on the history of European integratilÃ"