As a strategy of self-representation and a device of power, Europeanization is fundamentally
reorganizing territoriality and peoplehood, the two principles of group identification that have …

Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory
and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become …

The historical study of borderlands has been unduly restricted by an emphasis on the legal,
political, and geographical aspects of borders and by a state-centered approach. Too often …

Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory
interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford …

The aim of this book is to re-examine the relationship between language and national
identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach for a more …

The Single European Act (SEA) came in with a whimper; the Maastricht Treaty (MAT) with a
bang. When the former was initialled in 1 985 and ratified in 1 986, even quite …

Since the 1960s, policies to'revive'minority cultures and languages have flourished. But what
does it mean to have a'cultural identity'? And are minorities as deeply attached to their …

Europe's Experimental Union challenges conventional writings on European integration by
situating the analysis of the EU in the context of changing patterns of political and economic …

Bilinguals commonly observe that they are a “different person” in each of their two
languages. For example, a young bilingual woman raised in France, the daughter of …

In a study that is original and timely, Eve Darian-Smith uses the Channel Tunnel between
England and France to explore the shifting geographies of nationalism, postcolonialism, and …