{"id":44854,"date":"2025-02-15T00:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T00:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44854"},"modified":"2025-02-15T00:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T00:04:22","slug":"mats-andren-thinking-europe-a-history-of-the-european-idea-since-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=44854","title":{"rendered":"Mats Andr\u00e9n, \u201eThinking Europe: A History of the European Idea since 1800\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity <em>this title<\/em> examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of Europe, Mats Andren interrogates the concept of integration and more recent debates surrounding European identity across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the post-war period. Applying a broad range of original sources this unique work will be key reading for students and researchers studying European History, European Studies, Political History and related fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acknowledgements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preface<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PART I: UNITY AND BORDERS (1800\u20131914)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 1. Dreaming of Unity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 2. Longing for Borders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 3. Looking for Common Ground<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 4. Performing Communality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PART II: CRISIS AND DECLINE (1914\u20131945)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 5. Passing to a New Europe: The First World War<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 6. Fearing Crisis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 7. Organising for Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PART III: INTEGRATION AND IDENTITY (1945\u2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 8. Claiming European Unity and a Europe of Nations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapter 9. Elevating European Awareness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conclusion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bibliography<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MATS ANDR\u00c9N<\/strong> is Professor in the History of Ideas at the University of Gothenburg, and former director and chairman of its Centre of European Research. He teaches and supervises in European Studies and has published widely on European intellectual history. His recent books are <em>Cultural Borders of Europe<\/em> (co-ed., Berghahn, 2017) and <em>Nuclear Waste Management and Legitimacy<\/em> (Routledge, 2012). He is guest editor of <em>Journal of Risk Research<\/em>, <em>History of European Ideas<\/em>, <em>European Review<\/em> and <em>Global Intellectual History<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thinking Europe<\/em> by <strong>Mats Andr\u00e9n<\/strong> is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/\">(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)<\/a> with support from the University of Gothenburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>364 pages, bibliog., index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hb \/ Published (October 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pb \/ Published (November 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/AndrenThinking\">https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/AndrenThinking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-knjige","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Andren_Thinking.jpg?fit=400%2C590&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55119,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55119","url_meta":{"origin":44854,"position":0},"title":"Anthony Kaldellis, \u201ePhantom Byzantium: Europe, Empire, and Identity from Late Antiquity to World War II\u201c","author":"Filip \u0160imunjak","date":"28. kolovoza 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"How the West appropriated aspects of the eastern Roman empire while portraying it as inferior.Unveiling the ideological foundations of Byzantine studies, Phantom Byzantium is a pioneering survey of western European perceptions of the eastern Roman empire (also known as Byzantium) spanning late antiquity to World War II. 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