This book examines the question of European unity, from 1918 to 1939. It focuses on the diversity of the various ideas and images of unity, illustrating how seriously they were taken by political actors at the time, and on the complex interplay of ideology and interest which shaped the idea and reality of Europe in this turbulent period. European Unity in Context takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of Europe, incorporating the perspectives of historians, social scientists and literary specialists and thus offers valuable insights for students and scholars in history, politics, and literature alike.

1. Introduction: Crisis and Continuity in Interwar Europe Peter M.R. Stirk2. The Europeanism of Coudenhove-Kalergi Ralph White3. Marxism and European Unity R.N. Berki4. British Capitalism and the Idea of European Unity between the Wars Robert Boyce5. European Ideology and European Reality: European Unity and German Foreign Policy in the 1920s Peter Krüger6. Reflections on Europa A.G. Lehmann7. Nationalism and National Identity in the New States of Europe: The Examples of Austria, Finland and Ireland David Kirby8. Authoritarian and Nationalist Socialist Conceptions of Nation, State and Europe Peter M.R. Stirk9. Ideas for a New Order in France, Britain and the Low Countries on the 1930s M.L. Smith10. The Crisis of Scandinavia and the Collapse of Interwar Ideals, 1938-1940 Anthony Upton11. French Personalist and Federalist Movements in the Interwar Period John Loughlin12. Federalism in Britain and Italy: Radicals and the English Liberal Tradition John Pinder Index