Luuk van Middelaar, “The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union” (Yale UP, 2013)

At the end of the 20th century, it looked like history was being made. After a century that had seen Europe dissolve into an orgy of bloody conflict not once but twice, the continent seemed to have changed its ways. It had spent the second half of the century building...

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