In the 1970s and 1980s there was a steady transfer of power in mainland Europe to new, powerful regional authorities and these, in their turn, started to build up a new form of intra-European co-operation. With the acceleration of European integration, the rise of the multinational firm and new media and transport technologies, the traditional defence-based nation-states are under threat.
In this challenging study, Christopher Harvie alters the ways in which we have traditionally surveyed the European past by setting the positive and negative aspects of the present European situation in their historical context. He reappraises the actors of `national' politics, the persistence of types of civic and internationalist discourse and finally looks at the transactions which have created `bourgeois regionalism', and its implications for the future of Europe. Harvie argues that we are only beginning to realise the shift in consciousness, as well as in politics and administration, that an integrated Europe will involve.

Reviews

`... this elegant, somewhat dry examination of the cauldron of secession and autonomy in contemporary Europe bristles with facts and sharp, often shrewd perceptions.' - Observer

`... an eclectic, multi-dimensional, judicious and thoroughly enjoyable text whic is an absolute must for the school library. ... an invalualbe guide to change in our own time.' - Teaching History

`Aimed primarily at historians, this elegant, somewhat dry examination of the cauldron of secession and autonomy in contemporary Europe bristles with facts and sharp, often shrewd perceptions.' - Observer

Book Information
ISBN 9780415095235
Author Christopher Harvie
Format Paperback
Page Count 108
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g