TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gillingham,John (
TI  - European integration, 1950-2003 : : superstate or new market economy? / 
SN  - 9780511610004 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge : 
PB  - Cambridge University Press, 
KW  - Comunidad Economica Europea
KW  - History
KW  - Unión Europea
KW  - Historia
KW  - Integración económica
KW  - Europe
KW  - Economic integration
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1945-
N1  - EBA Cambridge University Press; Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - Integration is the most significant European historical development in the past fifty years, eclipsing in importance even the collapse of the USSR. Yet, until now, no satisfactory explanation is to be found in any single book as to why integration is significant, how it originated, how it has changed Europe, and where it is headed. Professor Gillingham's work corrects the inadequacies of the existing literature by cutting through the genuine confusion that surrounds the activities of the European Union, and by looking at his subject from a truly historical perspective. The late-twentieth century has been an era of great, though insufficiently appreciated, accomplishment that intellectually and morally is still emerging from the shadow of an earlier one of depression, and modern despotism. This is a work, then, that captures the historical distinctiveness of Europe in a way that transcends current party political debate
ER  -