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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 July 2009
      29 November 2007
      ISBN:
      9780511497056
      9780521883108
      9780521173971
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.74kg, 390 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 390 Pages
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    Major study of the role of European Christian democratic parties in the making of the European Union. It radically re-conceptualises European integration in long-term historical perspective as the outcome of partisan competition of political ideologies and parties and their guiding ideas for the future of Europe. Wolfram Kaiser takes a comparative approach to political Catholicism in the nineteenth century, Catholic parties in interwar Europe and Christian democratic parties in postwar Europe and studies these parties' cross-border contacts and co-ordination of policy-making. He shows how well networked party elites ensured that the origins of European Union were predominately Christian democratic, with considerable repercussions for the present-day EU. The elites succeeded by intensifying their cross-border communication and coordinating their political tactics and policy making in government. This is a major contribution to the new transnational history of Europe and the history of European integration.

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    Review of the hardback:'Kaiser's survey impresses for its analytical incisiveness and chronological and geographic scope.'

    Source: Central European History

    Review of the hardback:'Kaiser offers a detailed yet extremely clear institutional history that effectively highlights the personal contacts and relationships among integration's supporters.'

    Source: Central European History

    '… a landmark contribution to contemporary European history. [This book] should find a secure place on reading lists for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of Cold War Europe. Kaiser makes a valuable contribution to recent literature showing that European integration processes did not start in 1945 … Historians of the Cold War will read this book with great interest, for it presents an important and imaginatively construed way of transcending the differences between diplomatic and domestic social and political history. Kaiser’s book powerfully demonstrates that the history of the Cold War, like that of European integration, is embedded in a much richer trajectory than historicist assumptions about historical epochs suggest.'

    Source: Journal of Cold War Studies

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    Contents

    • Frontmatter
      pp i-vi
    • Contents
      pp vii-vii
    • Acknowledgements
      pp viii-ix
    • Abbreviations
      pp x-xii
    • Introduction
      pp 1-11
    • 1 - All paths to Rome? Transnational Catholicism in the nineteenth century
      pp 12-41
    • 2 - Under siege: Catholic parties in interwar Europe
      pp 42-71
    • 3 - After Versailles: left-Catholic cooperation
      pp 72-118
    • 4 - In the shadow of dictatorship: contacts in exile
      pp 119-162
    • 5 - Hegemony by default: Christian democracy in postwar Europe
      pp 163-190
    • 6 - Creating core Europe: the rise of the party network
      pp 191-252
    • 7 - Deepening integration: the supranational coalition embattled
      pp 253-303
    • 8 - Informal politics: from Rome to Maastricht
      pp 304-325
    • Bibliography
      pp 326-365
    • Index
      pp 366-374
    • NEW STUDIES IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
      pp 375-376

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