Download or read book European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective written by Jytte Klausen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the historical roots of integration, they trace contemporary integration efforts back to nineteenth-century social action in response to capitalist development. As today, it was a time when internationalism - both that of workers and capitalists - sustained international cooperation and attempted to define a social dimension to economic development and to set universal standards for welfare. The reemergence of an integrated Europe as an alternative to the system of states produced by the settlements of 1918 and 1945 has provided a new opening for internationalism.