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

By Derek W. Urwin

Book Overview

The period since 1945 has seen political events and socio-economic developments of enormous significance for the human race. This series explores these developments. the EEC itself and in the world beyond, is growing. Moreover the concept of a wider Europe has become a significant political factor in the postwar world. Derek Urwin traces the movement towards political and economic integration in Western Europe from the calls for a federal Europe that were made by the European Resistance movements and their immediate postwar successors, through to the demands that are now heard for complete monetary and partial political union. examines the history of the European Community after 1957.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582045312
• ISBN13: 9780582045316
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Longman Pub Group
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.7"

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...