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Prologue: Churchill's Congress: Four Driving Forces ; The Struggle for the Congress ; Negotiations and Decisions ; A Milestone -- 1. Foundation Years, 1948-1957:- The Struggle over the Council of Europe ; The Emergence of the Coal and Steel Community ; The Drama of the EDC ; The Difficult "Relance" ; The Negotiations on Euratom and the European Economic Community -- 2. Formative Years, 1958-1963: The European Commission ; The Struggle over the Free-Trade Area ; The Construction of the Common Market ; Fouchet Plans and British Membership Application ; Accession Negotiations and Franco-German Treaty ; The Success of the Economic Community -- 3. Crises of the Community of the Six, 1963-1969: Erhard's Relaunch ; Hallstein's Offensive ; The Crisis of the "Empty Chair" ; The Time of the Arrangements ; The Return of the British Question ; France on the Way to Turning -- 4. Expansion and New Perspectives, 1969-1975: Turning Point: The Summit in The Hague ; The Completion of the Common Market ; The First Enlargement ; The Project of Monetary Union ; Political Cooperation ; Crisis and New Beginning -- 5. Consolidation, 1976-1984: The Path to Direct Elections ; The European Monetary System ; Expansion to the South ; The Defense of Detente ; Thatcher, Genscher, and Colombo -- 6. The Era of Development, 1984-1992: The Single European Act ; The Internal-Market Project ; The Project for an Economic and Monetary Union ; European Security and German Unity ; The Path to Maastricht -- 7. From Maastricht to Nice, 1992-2001: Implementing the Monetary Union ; The Northern Expansion ; The Way to Amsterdam ; Security and Eastern Policy ; The Nice Complex -- 8. Constitutional Struggle and Euro Crisis, 2001-2012: The Eastward Enlargement ; The Constitutional Treaty ; From Prodi to Barroso ; The Constitutional Crisis ; The Euro Crisis -- Conclusion: The Future of the Union..

Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians, goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce's rule are the subjects of Victoria de Grazia's new work. De Grazia draws on an array of sources-memoirs and novels, the images, songs, and events of mass culture, as well as government statistics and archival reports. She offers a broad yet detailed characterization of Italian women's ambiguous and ambivalent experience of a regime that promised modernity, yet denied women emancipation.Always attentive to the great diversity among women and careful to distinguish fascist rhetoric from the practices that really shaped daily existence, the author moves with ease from the public discourse about femininity to the images of women in propaganda and commercial culture. She analyzes fascist attempts to organize women and the ways in which Mussolini's intentions were received by women as social actors. The first study of women's experience under Italian fascism, this is also a history of the making of contemporary Italian society

"Dramatic events in the contemporary world--wars, revolutions, political upheavals, terrorist attacks, catastrophic natural disasters, economic crises, and the endless stream of daily news--often obscure the long-developing historical processes that have created the societies in which we live and the current problems with which we have to cope. The mass media pay little attention to the broader historical patterns and contexts that shape the deeper meaning of swiftly moving public events and private lives. This new edition of A History of Europe in the Modern World therefore brings new information, documents, and interpretations to the ongoing search for historical perspectives on the complex, often bewildering, events of our own era. Although this book (as in past editions) focuses specifically on the history of Europe, it also emphasizes that modern European history has always evolved through interactions and exchanges with the wider world"--

Relying on internal sources, Wilfried Loth analyses the birth and subsequent development of the European Union, from the launch of the Council of Europe and the Schuman Declaration until the Euro crisis and the contested European presidential election of Jean-Claude Juncker. This book shines a light on the crises of the European integration, such as the failure of the European Defence Community, De Gaulle's empty chair policy, or the rejection of the European Constitution in France and the Netherlands, but also highlights the indubitable successes that are the Franco-German reconciliation, the establishment of the European common market, and the establishment of an expanding common currency. What this study accomplishes, for the first time, is to illuminate the driving forces behind the European integration process and how it changed European politics and society.

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