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The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today's EU has been theorized across a range of contemporary disciplines. It then moves to more detailed accounts of political and cultural developments in the three principal states of the original Common Market-France, Germany and Italy. A third section explores the interrelated histories of Cyprus and Turkey that pose a leading geopolitical challenge to the Community. The book ends by tracing ideas of European unity from the Enlightenment to the present, and their bearing on the future of the Union. The New Old World offers a critical portrait of a continent now increasingly hailed as a moral and political example to the world at large.

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Sheer pleasure...one of the best political, historical and literary essayists of the age. Times Literary Supplement The breath-taking range of conception and the architectural skill with which it has been executed make his work a formidable intellectual achievement. New York Review of Books A powerful and lucid intelligence. Eric Hobsbawm, New Statesman

"""A hugely ambitious and panoramic political book, of a sort rarely attempted in our era of quick leader biographies and reheated histories of the second world war."" Andy Beckett, Guardian ""A powerful and lucid intelligence."" Eric Hobsbawm, New Statesman ""A masterly historical survey of the European project, coupled with a critique of its current failings, is just what the EU needs."" Economist ""The New Old World brings home the complex internal political terrains of the main European countries, and stands as a richly detailed, learned, readable and lucid discussion."" Kerry Brown, International Affairs"

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Perry Anderson taught History at UCLA for thirty years and is an Editor at New Left Review. Recent books include Brazil Apart, The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci and The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony.

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