Finding Europe

<p> In the last decade or so many books have been devoted to the history of Europe.Two conceptual axes predominate in a large number of these accounts: a discourse focusing on Europe's values and another discourse fashioned largely in opposition to the first which emphasizes the process of European construction. The first conceives of Europe's past teleologically as a process by which certain values (Christian ethics individualism capitalism tolerance republicanism due process etc.) were affirmed and came to define European culture. The second approach rejects the discourse on values emphasizes the post-Enlightenment emergence of the concept of Europe and the political and ideological implications in its continuous redefinitions (and re elaborations) during the past two or more centuries. This volume offers new approaches that integrate the long temporal dimension of the values-based approach albeit devoid of its teleological element with the constructivist interpretation.</p>