European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective - 1850 to the Present (Paperback, New)

Exploring the social dimensions of state formation and European integration, a respected interdisciplinary group of European and North American scholars takes a novel approach to the historical processes of integration. Rather than being led by EU institutions and intergovernmental policy, the contributors argue that integration is primarily influenced by non-state actors: unions, businesspeople, elites, and immigrants. Exploring the historical roots of integration, they trace contemporary integration efforts back to nineteenth-century social action in response to capitalist development. As today, it was a time when internationalism_both that of workers and of capitalists_sustained international cooperation and attempts to define universal standards for welfare and a social dimension to economic development. The reemergence of an integrated Europe as an alternative to the system of states produced by the settlements of 1918 and 1945 has provided a new opening for internationalism. The contributors view this as a positive trend, especially as a counterbalance to intensifying conflicts over growth, the distribution of wealth, welfare, and global access to markets and jobs.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1998
First published:	November 1997
Editors:	Jytte Klausen • Louise A. Tilly
Contributors:	Bernard Ebbinghaus • Thomas Faist • Michael Hanagan • E. J Hobsbawm • Christiane Lemke • Gary Marks • Leslie Page Moch • Gèrard Noiriel
Dimensions:	228 x 148 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	356
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8476-8501-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > International institutions > EU & European institutions Books > History > General
LSN:	0-8476-8501-2
Barcode:	9780847685011

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