Twentieth-Century Europe (1979) traces the development of European unity from the early vision to the institutions and the framework of the European Community. Throughout, the aim is to show how the idea and purpose of unity survived and pointed the way to the creation of European institutions.
Twentieth-Century Europe (1979) traces the development of European unity from the early vision, inspired by the cataclysm of the First World War, to the institutions and the framework of the European Community. Throughout, the aim is to show how the idea and purpose of unity survived amid the turmoil of European politics and pointed the way to the creation of institutions which would allow European states to confront their problems together.
1. Before 1918: A Recurring Idea
2. False Starts Between the Two World
Wars
3. The War No Interruption?
4. The Superpowers and Post-War Europe
5.
The State of Europe after the War
6. Integration by Sector
7. The Treaty of
Rome
8. The Common Market of the Six, 195872
9. Europe Beyond the Six,
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10. Unofficial Integration since the War
11. The Europe of the Nine