A study of Europe through the ages, examining it as a coherent entity since the Roman Empire. The author investigates perceptions of Europe in a wide-ranging survey.

Table of Contents

The Europe of the Roman "Imperium" and Latin Christendom; Reformation Europe; Enlightened and Napoleonic Europe; the concept of Europe and the Holy Alliance; the Europe of liberalism and imperialism; the dream of a socialist Europe in the Second International; the new European order of fascism; Europe as imagined by Soviet Marxists from 1936 to the heyday of Nato and the eve of the EC - the Cold War; the idea of Europe as we now have it.