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Science and technology are at the very heart of the European project. But how to write a history of Europe in the making when using technology as an actor category and lens of analysis? This is the driving narrative behind Making Europe: Technology and Transformations (1850-2000) – a sixvolume series on the history of Europe in the «long twentieth century»1. All volumes in the series are co-authored by two or three authors and are the result of an intense debate and discussion amongst all people involved in this collective endeavor. As the series editors Johan Schot and Phil Scranton emphasize in the introduction to the series, Making Europe aims at providing a novel perspective on European history by decentering the European Union and its many predecessors and by placing the complex, desynchronized and multilayered process of Europeanization in a long-term historical perspective.

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0.1 Demographic Trends -- 0.2 Macro-economic Trends -- 0.3 Macro-technological Trends -- 1 Age Groups -- 1.1 Youth -- 1.2 Elders -- 2 Microsocial -- 2.1 Self-identification -- 2.2 Kinship Networks -- 2.3 Community and Neighbourhood Types -- 2.4 Local Autonomy -- 2.5 Voluntary Associations -- 2.6 Sociability Networks -- 3 Women -- 3.1 Female Roles -- 3.2 Childbearing -- 3.3 Matrimonial Models -- 3.4 Women's Employment -- 3.5 Reproductive Technologies -- 4 Labour Market -- 4.1 Unemployment -- 4.2 Skills and Occupational Levels -- 4.3 Types of Employment -- 4.4 Sectors of the Labour Force -- 4.5 Computerization of Work -- 5 Labour and Management -- 5.1 Work Organization -- 5.2 Personnel Administration -- 5.3 Sizes and Types of Enterprises -- 6 Social Stratification -- 6.1 Occupational Status -- 6.2 Social Mobility -- 6.3 Economic Inequality -- 6.4 Social Inequality -- 7 Social Relations -- 7.1 Conflict -- 7.2 Negotiation -- 7.3 Norms of Conduct -- 7.4 Authority -- 7.5 Public Opinion -- 8 State and Service Institutions -- 8.1 Educational System -- 8.2 Health System -- 8.3 Welfare System -- 8.4 The State -- 9 Mobilizing Institutions -- 9.1 Labour Unions -- 9.2 Religious Institutions -- 9.3 The Military -- 9.4 Political Parties -- 9.5 Mass Media -- 10 Institutionalization of Social Forces -- 10.1 Dispute Settlement -- 10.2 Institutionalization of Labour Unions -- 10.3 Social Movements -- 10.4 Interest Groups -- 11 Ideologies and Beliefs -- 11.1 Political Differentiation -- 11.2 Confidence in Institutions -- 11.3 Economic Orientations -- 11.4 Radicalism -- 11.5 Religious Beliefs -- 12 Household Resources -- 12.1 Personal and Family Income -- 12.2 Informal Economy -- 12.3 Personal and Family Wealth -- 13 Life-Style -- 13.1 Market Goods and Services -- 13.2 Mass Information -- 13.3 Personal Health and Beauty Practices -- 13.4 Time Use -- 13.5 Daily Mobility -- 13.6 Household Production -- 13.7 Forms of Erotic Expression -- 13.8 Mood-altering Substances -- 14 Leisure -- 14.1 Amount and Use of Free Time -- 14.2 Vacation Patterns -- 14.3 Athletics and Sports -- 14.4 Cultural Activities and Practices -- 15 Educational Attainment -- 15.1 General Education -- 15.2 Vocational and Professional Education -- 15.3 Continuing Education -- 16 Integration and Marginalization -- 16.1 Ethnic Minorities -- 16.2 Crime and Punishment -- 16.3 Emotional Disorders and Self-destructive Behaviour -- 16.4 Poverty -- 17 Attitudes and Values -- 17.1 Satisfaction -- 17.2 Perceptions of Social Problems -- 17.3 Orientations to the Future -- 17.4 Values -- 17.5 National Identity

The text comprises a translation of Georg Simmel's article, 'Europa und Amerika: eine weltgeschichtliche Betrachtung', first published in Das Berliner Tagblatt in July 1915, with a short introduction by the translator. The article is the counterpart to Simmel's better-known essay 'The Idea of Europe', first published in March 1915, reprinted in 1917 in lightly revised form in Simmel's collection of texts on Germany and the First World War, Der Krieg und die geistigen Entscheidungen. In both essays, Simmel develops a vision of the future of Europe after the destruction of the war as a fragile cultural totality that both encompasses national identities and at the same time transcends them.

Abstract This article investigates the recent attempts to integrate Eastern Europe in global labour history as a unique opportunity to formulate an intellectual agenda that would place the region on the global map, but on its own analytical terms. Based on two interconnected research projects on industrial labour in socialist Romania, it argues that these integration efforts have to start with a systematic endeavour to bring labour history and the history of capital formation in the region together. The endeavour of articulating a truly global labour history from a specifically Eastern European angle requires us to reconsider the scale(s) at which we construct our narratives, moving away from an epistemological perspective that favours eventful fractures and towards a processual analysis of labour in the region. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 792833. The article reflects only the author's view; the Agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

"This book describes the dangerous Cold War world of the Munich stations, focusing on security and intelligence problems. Chapters provide a history of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Appendices provide copies of security reports and documents which have never appeared in print, and an overall summary of hostile intelligence activities"--Provided by publisher

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"As war and mass emigration across oceans increased the distances between ordinary people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many of them, previously barely literate and unaccustomed to writing, began to communicate on paper. This fascinating account explores this surge of ordinary writing, how people met the new challenges of literacy and the importance of scribal culture to the history of individual experience in modern Europe. Focusing on correspondence and other writing genres produced by French and Italian soldiers in the trenches in the First World War, as well as Spanish emigrants to the Americas, the book reveals how these writings were influenced by dialect and oral speech and were oblivious to the rules of grammar, spelling and punctuation. Through their sometimes moving stories, we gain an insight into the importance to ordinary peasants of family, village and nation at a time of rapid social and cultural change"--