European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective: 1850 to the Present - Softcover

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 initiatives of the past decade.--Jeffrey Anderson, Brown University

...the editors do provide some insightful overviews in their brief introductions to each of the main sections, and bring out the links between these diverse strands.--Stephen George, University of Sheffield "English Historical Review, Nov.1999 "

The authors provide lucid perspectives often lacking in books on the travails of the EU.--Foreign Affairs

Individual contributions to European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective are important, perceptive, and often fascinating. ...A valuable contribution to contemporary debates on the European Union and similar pursuits. ...Students of the European Union and the relationship between sociopolitical actors and political institutions, as well as comparative-historical researcherswill benefit from the numerous contributions made by European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective.--Contemporary Sociology

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.