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Making Europe: Jak technologie utvářela Evropu?
Making Europe: How Europe Was Shaped by Technology?

Author(s): Jakub Rákosník
Subject(s): Economic history, History of ideas, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), 19th Century
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Masarykův ústav
Keywords: Europe; Economic integration; Technology; Long Twentieth Century; Technocracy

Summary/Abstract: This review article is concerned with a series of six books published by Palgrave Publishing House between 2013 and 2019 under the label Making Europe. The series provides new perspectives on the development of European integration based on the history of technology. The authors believe that obvious teleological narratives based on political history are no longer acceptable. They also reject the prevalent periodisation of European integration history since 1945. Instead, they put forward the concept of the ‘long twentieth century’ (1850–2000). They believe that from this point of view it is easier to demonstrate the long-standing continuities of European cooperation. This review article focuses especially on the theoretical and conceptual issues which appear in all volumes of the series.

  • Issue Year: 12/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 127-146
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Czech