The Community of Europe: A History of European Integration Since 1945

by Derek W. Urwin

Book Overview

This hugely successful history of political and economic integration in Western Europe since the Second World War -- and especially, but by no means exclusively, the European Community itself -- was first published in 1991, to general acclaim. Since then much turbulent water has flowed under the bridges of Maastricht and Strasbourg. Now, in this welcome Second Edition, Derek Urwin has brought the story fully up to date, with an account of developments since 1991 and an assessment of the mood and prospects of Europe and the Community today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 058223199X
• ISBN13: 9780582231993
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Dry reading, but intelligent

I used this book as a text for a history course at UC Riverside. The author unrolls his opinion eloquently in this book. Readers will gain a comprehensive history of Western Europe after WWII and its turn to social democracy. Urwin's chapters include topics of treaties, the EEC, and the dozens and dozens of economic and political arrangements; Europe is moving towards economic and political integration. Urwin would not suggest a United States of Europe, but a Union where the European members no longer swindle, cheat, war, or contest one another for supreme power. And Urwin does well showing the USA has competition to be reckoned with.