Imagining European unity since 1000 AD / Patrick Pasture, Professor of History and Director of the Master Programme in European Studies, Transnational and Global Perspectives, University of Leuven, Belgium.
In 2012, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee conferred its most prestigious award to the EU. This book takes this prize as a starting point to review the association of Europe's quest for peace with plans and ideals about European unity, the oldest of which can be traced back as far back as the Mid...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Table of Contents:
- "Peace for our time": the European quest for peace
- Peace in Christendom?
- Enlightenment, revolution, and the evaporating dream of a perpetual peace
- Peace during the concert
- Between empire, market and nation
- The Long War
- Hope and deception
- Pacification by division
- Epilogue: the EC's colonial empire
- Conclusion: in search of European unity.