Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union

by Wolfram Kaiser

Book Overview

Major study of the role of European Christian democratic parties in the making of the European Union. It radically re-conceptualises European integration in long-term historical perspective as the outcome of partisan competition of political ideologies and parties and their guiding ideas for the future of Europe. Wolfram Kaiser takes a comparative approach to political Catholicism in the nineteenth century, Catholic parties in interwar Europe and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521173973
• ISBN13: 9780521173971
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"