The Rise of Regional Europe (Historical Connections)

In the 1970s and 1980s there was a steady transfer of power in mainland Europe to new, powerful regional authorities and these, in their turn, started to build up a new form of intra-European co-operation. With the acceleration of European integration, the rise of the multinational firm and new media and transport technologies, the traditional defence-based nation-states are under threat. In this challenging study, Christopher Harvie alters the ways in which we have traditionally surveyed the European past by setting the positive and negative aspects of the present European situation in their historical context. He reappraises the actors of 'national' politics, the persistence of types of civic and internationalist discourse and finally looks at the transactions which have created 'bourgeois regionalism', and its implications for the future of Europe. Harvie argues that we are only beginning to realise the shift in consciousness, as well as in politics and administration, that an integrated Europe will involve. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Preface and acknowledgements......Page 9 Maps......Page 14 REGIONALISATION INTO REGIONALISM......Page 17 A NEW PARTICULARISM?......Page 21 PINNING DOWN THE CONCEPT......Page 22 SUBVERTING EDUCATIONAL NATIONALISM......Page 25 INSTRUMENT INTO MOVEMENT......Page 26 THE INDUSTRIAL IMPERATIVE......Page 28 LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REVOLUTION......Page 30 PARTICULARISM AND NATIONALISM......Page 32 PRINT-CAPITALISM AND CIVICS......Page 35 DRAMATIS PERSONAE......Page 39 THE COMMERCIAL BOURGEOISIE......Page 40 THE STATE AND ITS INSTITUTIONS......Page 42 THE CLERGY......Page 45 THE SOCIALISTS......Page 47 TEACHING AND TRAINING......Page 49 THE INTELLECTUALS......Page 51 MASS CULTURE......Page 53 A NATIONALIST AGENDA......Page 54 THE ETHNIC EPOCH......Page 57 THE IDEOLOGIES OF REGIONALISM......Page 58 INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE SCOTTISH TRADITION......Page 60 BRYCE, GLADSTONE AND DIFFUSED SOVEREIGNTY......Page 62 GEDDES, KOHR, SCHUMACHER AND THE ECOLOGICAL REGION......Page 63 THE SMALLER NATIONS AFTER VERSAILLES......Page 66 THE SUPERPOWER UTOPIAS......Page 68 POST-HISTORICAL EUROPE......Page 73 THE ‘NEW’ REGIONS......Page 75 SPANISH AND FRENCH SEMI-FEDERALISM......Page 77 BOURGEOIS REGIONALISM: GERMAN STYLE......Page 79 THE FOUR MOTORS......Page 81 OUT OF STEP.........Page 83 SOME REGIONS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS......Page 85 THE LIMITS OF CIVIC VIRTUE......Page 86 THE RISE AND FALL OF A REGIONALIST......Page 88 ‘SUCCESS: THREE YEARS IN THE LIFE OF A PROVINCE’......Page 89 FOG IN CHANNEL: CONTINENT CUT OFF......Page 92 References......Page 95 Index......Page 109 In the 1970s and 1980s there was a steady transfer of power in mainland Europe to new, powerful regional authorities and these, in their turn, started to build up a new form of intra-European co-operation. With the acceleration of European integration, the rise of the multinational firm and new media and transport technologies, the traditional defence-based nation-states are under threat. In this challenging study, Christopher Harvie alters the ways in which we have traditionally surveyed the European past by setting the positive and negative aspects of the present European situation in their historical context. He reappraises the actors of ǹational' politics, the persistence of types of civic and internationalist discourse and finally looks at the transactions which have created b̀ourgeois regionalism', and its implications for the future of Europe. Harvie argues that we are only beginning to realise the shift in consciousness, as well as in politics and administration, that an integrated Europe will involve With the acceleration of European integration, the traditional defence-based nation-states are under threat. The steady transfer of power in mainland Europe to new, powerful regional authorities has started to build up new forms of intra-European integration. The author explores both the good and bad aspects of the present European situation, and shows how setting these in the context of cultural, economic and political history dramatically alters the way in which we have traditionally surveyed the European past. Christopher Harvie's challenging study argues that we are only beginning to realise the shift in consciousness, as well as in politics and administration, that an integrated Europe will involve