European unity is a dream that has appealed to the imagination since the Middle Ages. Its motives have varied from a longing for peace to a deep-rooted abhorrence of diversity, as well as a yearning to maintain Europe's colonial dominance. This book offers a multifaceted history that takes in account the European imagination in a global context.1. 'Peace for our time': The European Quest for Peace 2. Peace in Christendom? 3. Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Evaporating Dream of a Perpetual Peace 4. Peace during the Concert 5. Between Empire, Market and Nation 6. The Long War 7. Hope and Deception 8. Pacification by Division 9. Epilogue: The EC's Colonial Empire
Its critical meta-narrative stressing the dark sides and shortcomings attending the imaginings of European unity appears both timely and empirically sound. & this book without doubt not only sets new accents for European studies but also qualifies as an introductory textbook for students. (Florian Greiner, European History Quarterly, Vol. 48 (1), 2018)
A strikingly rich and nuanced picture of the political and intellectual historical pedigree of European integration & . (R. Lesaffer, American Historical Review, February, 2017)
It brilliantly shows that, beyond irenic discourses which present Europe as a land of freedom, tolerance, and diversity, there is another reality and another history of violence, exclusion, and obsession with uniformity (Carl Bouchard, Peace & Change, Vol. 42 (1), January, 2017)
Historians have rarely offered such a well-balanced and well informed history of (Anti-)Europeanism & . (Peter Pichler, History, Vol. 102 (349), January, 2017)
It is learned, impressively so, without being boring for even a single page, and it is subversive since it shows the dark sides of the noble quest for peace an inbuilt tendency of the integration project to l£Ý
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