Table of Contents

Contents: Bo Stråth: Introduction: Europe as a Discourse – Luisa Passerini: The Last Identification: Why Some of Us Would Like to Call Ourselves Europeans and What We Mean by This – Hayden White: The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity – Lutz Niethammer: A European Identity? – Peter Burke: Foundation Myths and Collective Identities in Early Modern Europe – Katiana Orluc: Decline or Renaissance: The Transformation of European Consciousness after the First World War – Erik Tängerstad: «The Third World» as an Element in the Collective Construction of a Post-Colonial European Identity – Silvia Sebastiani: Race as a Construction of the Other: «Native Americans» and «Negroes» in the 18th Century Editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica – Gerold Gerber: Doing Christianity and Europe: An Inquiry into Memory, Boundary and Truth Practices in Malta – Patrizia Isabelle Nanz: In-between Nations: Ambivalence and the Making of a European Identity – Svetlana Boym: Leningrad into St. Petersburg: The Dream of Europe on the Margins – Martin Marcussen/Klaus Roscher: The Social Construction of «Europe»: Life-Cycles of Nation-State Identities in France, Germany and Great Britain – Bo Stråth: The Swedish Image of Europe as the Other – Bo Stråth: Multiple Europes: Integration, Identity and Demarcation to the Other – J. Peter Burgess: Coal, Steel and Spirit. The Double Reading of European Unity (1948-1951).

About the Author

Bo Stråth is Finnish Academy Distinguished Professor in Nordic, European and World History at the University of Helsinki. He was 1997-2007 Professor of Contemporary history at the European University Institute and 1990-1996 Professor of History at Gothenburg University.

Reviews

«This, on the whole is a thorough and interesting account of a fascinating debate. The collection's strength lies in its variety and interesting choices of case study. A strong editorial line is maintained throughout ensuring that even the most eclectic of case study is fully relevant to the subject in hand.» (Lisa Hunt, Journal of European Area Studies)