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Inventing Europe: Idea, Identity, Reality

This book is about how every age invented the idea of Europe in the mirror of its own identity: Europe is as much an idea as it is a reality, but it is also a contested idea and it was in adversity that European identity was constructed as a dichotomy of Self and Other. The book analyses the origins and development of the idea of Europe as a social construction from the earliest times to the present. Its challenging thesis is that the European idea has lent itself to a politics of division and exclusion, which has been disguised by superficial notions of unity.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 163
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-312-12569-1
  • EAN
  • 9780312125691
  • Genres
  • history, politics
  • Release date
  • 1995