European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective 1850 to the Present: 1850 To the Present - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0847685012 ISBN 13 : 9780847685011

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 1997

Synopsis

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 welfare and a social dimension to economic development. The reemergence of an integrated Europe as an alternative to the system of states produced by the settlements of 1918 and 1945 has provided a new opening for internationalism. The contributors view this as a positive trend, especially as a counterbalance to intensifying conflicts over growth, the distribution of wealth, welfare, and global access to markets and jobs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0847685012
• ISBN 13: 9780847685011
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Éditeur: Klausen Jytte, Tilly Louise A.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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