{"product_id":"9781474256803","title":"Eurafrica : The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eEurafrica\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Peo Hansen, Stefan Jonsson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn order to think theoretically about our global age it is important to  understand how the global has been conceived historically.  'Eurafrica'  was an intellectual endeavor and political project that from the 1920s  saw Europe's future survival - its continued role in history - as  completely bound up with Europe's successful merger with Africa. In its  time the concept of Eurafrica was tremendously influential in the  process of European integration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday the project is largely  forgotten, yet the idea continues to influence EU policy towards its  African 'partner'. The book will recover a critical conception of the  nexus between Europe and Africa - a relationship of significance across  the humanities and social sciences. In assessing this historical concept  the authors shed light on the process of European integration, African  decolonization and the current conflictual relationship between Europe  and Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A roseate glimmer of postwar peace attaches to  'Europe' - the fake continent and the organization of states that is  said metonymically to stand for it. Hansen and Jonsson uncover something  altogether different in the formation of the European project,   something either unknown or papered over in embarrassed silence:  Eurafrica. The colonial ideology, morphing into the neo-colonial here,  is nothing less than astonishing.” —\u003ci\u003eAnders Stephanson, Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Professor of History, Columbia University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[...] the work \u003ci\u003eEurafrica\u003c\/i\u003e offers a  very valuable contribution to the thorough knowledge and full  understanding of the bond existing between decolonization and  europeanisation processes. Based on a wide range of sources, it provides  a general overview of the origins, motivations, forms and means of EC  cooperation policies and illuminates the denseness of themes,  controversies and approaches covered in research. In this way it  advances knowledge about the debate on the “centrality of colonial  legacy in early blueprints for European Integration” and provides a good  fact finding of the state of the research in the field.” —\u003ci\u003eJean-Marie Palayret, former Director of the Historical Archives of the European Union, European University Institute, Florence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781474256803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40626194448590,"sku":"9781474256803","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_ce1d41a3-1591-402d-8cc5-cc24c8f2fbea.jpg?v=1638670692","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781474256803","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}