Urwin - The Community of Europe : a History of European Integration Since 1945

THE COMMUNITY OF EUROPE

The Postwar World

General Editors: A. J. Nicholls and Martin S. Alexander

As distance puts events into perspective, and as evidence accumulates, it begins to be possible to form an objective historical view of our recent past. The Postwar World is an ambitious series providing a scholarly but readable account of the way our world has been shaped in the crowded years since the Second World War. Some volumes deal with regions, or even single nations, others with important themes; all are written by expert historians drawing on the latest scholarship as well as their own research and judgements. The series should be particularly welcome to students, but it is designed also for the general reader with an interest in contemporary history.

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The Community of Europe: A History of European Integration since 1945

Second Edition

Derek W. Urwin

First published 1991 by Pearson Education Limited

Second edition 1995

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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-23199-3 (pbk)

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Urwin, Derek W.

The Community of Europe: a history of European integration since 1945/Derek W. Urwin. -- 2nd ed.

p. cm. (The Postwar world)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-582-23199-X

1. Europe -- Economic integrationHistory. 2. European Economic CommunityHistory. 3. Europe -- Economic conditions --1945

I. Title. II. Series.

HC241.U78 1995

337.1409045 -- dc20

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