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European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective
. Ed(S): Klausen, Jytte; Tilly, Louise A.
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Description for European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective
Paperback. A group of European and North American scholars considers integration as a historical process of extra-national networks and interest groups within the larger European framework, and argue that integration is driven more by business than policies. Editor(s): Klausen, Jytte; Tilly, Louise A. Num Pages: 356 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; JPSN2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Exploring the social dimensions of state formation and European integration, a respected interdisciplinary group of European and North American scholars takes a novel approach to the historical processes of integration. Rather than being led by EU institutions and intergovernmental policy, the contributors argue that integration is primarily influenced by non-state actors: unions, businesspeople, elites, and immigrants. Exploring the historical roots of integration, they trace contemporary integration efforts back to nineteenth-century social action in response to capitalist development. As today, it was a time when internationalism_both that of workers and of capitalists_sustained international cooperation and attempts to define universal standards for ... Read more
Exploring the social dimensions of state formation and European integration, a respected interdisciplinary group of European and North American scholars takes a novel approach to the historical processes of integration. Rather than being led by EU institutions and intergovernmental policy, the contributors argue that integration is primarily influenced by non-state actors: unions, businesspeople, elites, and immigrants. Exploring the historical roots of integration, they trace contemporary integration efforts back to nineteenth-century social action in response to capitalist development. As today, it was a time when internationalism_both that of workers and of capitalists_sustained international cooperation and attempts to define universal standards for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847685011
SKU
V9780847685011
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About . Ed(S): Klausen, Jytte; Tilly, Louise A.
Jytte Klausen is associate professor of comparative politics at Brandeis University and a fellow at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. Louise A. Tilly is Michael E. Gellert Professor of History and Sociology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.
Reviews for European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective
The authors provide lucid perspectives often lacking in books on the travails of the EU.
Foreign Affairs
An ambitious volume. Its broad substantive and temporal scope as well as its interdisciplinary foundations open up new perspectives on integration in Europe. This book represents a successful and original attempt to move beyond the narrow academic debates surrounding the integration ... Read more
Foreign Affairs
An ambitious volume. Its broad substantive and temporal scope as well as its interdisciplinary foundations open up new perspectives on integration in Europe. This book represents a successful and original attempt to move beyond the narrow academic debates surrounding the integration ... Read more