Publisher's Synopsis
This is an articulate and densely documented account of forces and tensions in contemporary European integration, most especially concerning Germany. It effectively fuses a vast array of material from what are normally separate disciplines. The book investigates contemporary resonance?s of identifications and conceptions of political boundaries that appeared in Europe in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century. It argues that within a 'superanationalising' Europe, national identity and nationalism have not disappeared as cultural and political phenomena. Rather, they persist and manifest themselves in variable forms at popular and elite levels. This is the basis for Europe?s condition of far from completed unity, at the centre of which is now a re-unified Germany, more sure of itself, but less sure of the world around it.
