The Building of Civil Europe 1951-1972

• Main Author: Pukallus, Stefanie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; History, Modern.; World politics.; European Union.; Civilization-History.; History of Modern Europe.; Modern History.; Political History.; European Union Politics.; Cultural History.

This book argues that early European Commission officials envisaged an integrated civil Europe from the outset. Largely overlooked is the fact that between 1951 and 1972 there was a group of European Commission (and before that the High Authority) officials who wished to build a Civil Europe to sit...

Table of Contents:

• Introductory Statement
• Chapter 1 The European Commission officials and the Building of Civil Europe
• Chapter 2 Defining Civil Europe and European civil consciousness 1951-1972
• Chapter 3 Civil integration through education: the building of European Schools
• Chapter 4 Europe on display: the European Coal and Steel Community's participation in Expo58
• Chapter 5 'Our Europe': the representation of Civil Europe in the Community's documentaries
• Conclusion: Civil Europe: The Fabulous Artificers, the European general public and complementary identities
• Index .