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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
In the framework of the so-called Barcelona process, the European Union concluded several bilateral agreements with Morocco aimed to deepen their economic integration. The 2000 Association agreement European Union–Morocco is the general legal framework for the development of relationships among...
Conflicted Memories
Europeanizing Contemporary Histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national work on specific...
Europe between Imperial Decline and Quest for Integration
Pro-European Groups and the French, Belgian and British Empires (19471957)
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
The book assesses the role of three pro-European pressure groups (the European Union of Federalists, the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe and the European League for Economic Cooperation) and their impact in fostering new relations between Europe and the colonies between 1947 and...
Cultural Routes management: from theory to practice
Step-by-step guide to the Council of Europe Cultural Routes
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
In 1987, the Santiago de Compostela Declaration laid the foundations for the first Council of Europe Cultural Route, highlighting the importance of our rich, colourful and diverse European identities. Today, the Council of Europe Enlarged Partial Agreement (EPA) on Cultural Routes oversees 29 routes...
by Stuart Piggott
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book interprets the main lines of European prehistory from the first agricultural communities in the sixth or even seventh millennium B.C. until the incorporation of much of barbarian Europe within the Roman Empire. It traces the beginnings of animal domestication and plant cultivation in ancient...
Colonial Captivity during the First World War
Internment and the Fall of the German Empire, 1914–1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
With the outbreak of war in 1914, an estimated 30,000 German civilians in African and Asian colonies were violently uprooted and imprisoned. Britain's First World War internment of German settlers seriously challenged the structures that underpinned nineteenth-century imperialism. Through its analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
The present volume brings together three different traditions of historical study: national politics, European integration, and political parties. Since the 1980s, there has been an enlargement of the scope of political history. This attempt to transcend national boundaries can intersect with the...
by Alasdair Blair
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The European Union faces a crossroads in the twenty-first century. While there is evidence of declining enthusiasm for European integration, the EU plays an increasingly vital role in tackling problems that can no longer be dealt with at member state level. In recent years, the EU has developed a...
by Philip Thody
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2002
An Historical Introduction to the European Union is a chronological political history of European integration from the 1950s to the present. It also includes a contextualising survey of wider European history since the 1600s, and places unification against a background of world politics.
This clearly...
by Christopher Scarre, Luc Laporte
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Megalithic monuments are among the most striking remains of the Neolithic period of northern and western Europe and are scattered across landscapes from Pomerania to Portugal. Antiquarians and archaeologists early recognized the family resemblance of the different groups of tombs, attributing them...
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution
European Identity, Transnational Politics, and the Origins of the European Convention
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The European Court of Human Rights has long held unparalleled sway over questions of human rights violations across continental Europe, Britain, and beyond. Both its supporters and detractors accept the common view that the European human rights system was originally devised as a means of containing...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Provided for under the Treaty of Lisbon, the accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights is destined to be a landmark in European legal history because it will finally make it possible for individuals and undertakings to apply to the European Court of Human Rights for...
by Michael Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
"To those who think Europe matters, and even more so, to those who don’t”… Michael Tracy’s “Memoirs” recount his experiences from boyhood in wartime Scotland, through hi life in “public school” and university, to postings in various international organisations and a senior position...
Europe's Last Chance
Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen issues a clarion call to radically remake the European Union in the mold of the United States' own federal government
Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalog of ills seems...