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Today it often appears as though the European Union has entered existential crisis after decades of success, condemned by its adversaries as a bureaucratic monster eroding national sovereignty: at best wasteful, at worst dangerous. How did we reach this point and how has European integration impacted on ordinary people's lives - not just in the member states, but also beyond? Did the predecessors of today's EU really create peace after World War II, as is often argued? How about its contribution to creating prosperity? What was the role of citizens in this process, and can the EU justifiably claim to be a 'community of values'? Kiran Klaus Patel's bracing look back at the myths and realities of integration challenges conventional wisdoms of Europhiles and Eurosceptics alike and shows that the future of Project Europe will depend on the lessons that Europeans derive from its past.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Preface -- 1 Balancing Acts: The Crown and Parliament -- 2 The First Estate: Parliament and the Church -- 3 The Second Estate: Parliament and the Nobility -- 4 The Third Estate: Parliament and the Burghs -- 5 House Rules: Parliamentary Procedure -- 6 Parliament and the Law -- 7 The Law of the Person: Parliament and Social Control -- 8 Political Ideas and Parliament -- 9 Parliament and Politics -- Index

Gender is a good place from which to start reflections on European history: gender history deliberately transcends borders and, at the same time, demonstrates the difficulties of writing European, or transnational, history. Focusing on recent syntheses of modern European history, both general works and those specifically devoted to gender, the article asks what kind of Europe emerges from the encounter between gender and history. It suggests that the writing of European history includes either Eastern Europe (and, sometimes, the Ottoman Empire) or a gender perspective, but seldom both. Thus, the projects of integrating a European dimension into gender history and gender into European history remain unfinished. The result is a history of a rather 'small Europe'. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]

Frontmatter -- Preface, 1995 -- Preface to the First Edition -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION. Urbanization in Perspective -- PART ONE. The Preindustrial Age: Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries -- Intoduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Structures and Functions of Medieval Towns -- CHAPTER 2. Systems of Early Cities -- CHAPTER 3. The Demography of Preindustrial Cities -- PART TWO. A Protoindustrial .Age: Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 4. Cities in the Early Modern European Economy -- CHAPTER 5. Beyond Baroque Urbanism -- PART THREE. The Industrial Age: Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 6. Industrialization and the Cities -- CHAPTER 7. Urban Growth and Urban Systems -- CHAPTER 8. The Human Consequences of Industrial Urbanization -- CHAPTER 9. The Evolution and Control of Urban Space -- CHAPTER 10. Europe's Cities in the Twentieth Century -- APPENDIX A. A Cyclical Model of an Economy -- APPENDIX B. Size Distributions and the Rank-Size Rule -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index