An accessible yet thorough look at how historians and social scientists have thought and written about the history of the present-day European Union, and the main themes of their research and debates. Essential reading for historians of Europe and social scientists of the European Union alike.
Wolfram Kaiser, Professor of European Studies at University of Portsmouth, he has taught at the universities of Edinburgh, Vienna, Paris-IV, Cambridge and Saarbrücken and at the Cultural Studies Institute in Essen.
His academic interests include the history of the European Union and transnational dimensions of European and global history since the mid-nineteenth century.