Europe: A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union

Students of the European Union have, until now, had no ready place to turn for a succinct and comprehensive description of its many institutions, policies, laws and personalities. This gap was felt among politically conscious readers and researchers eager to understand better what many sensed to be a period of upheaval and change, and among students and teachers of modern history, politics, economics and international affairs who recognized the growing influence of the EU but lacked a general reference book on its activities and felt themselves unduly reliant on Community sources for information about controversial European questions. Now in its third edition, the Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union provides an excellent, thorough and inexpensive response to those needs - from Charlemagne's Aachen to Bismarck's Zollverein, via all the key modern-day institutions, people and ideas that anyone studying or dealing with the EU is ever likely to come across.