Between Yesterday and Tomorrow ― German Visions of Europe, 1926-1950

Challenging what he sees as a foundational myth of European integration as a linear and solely post-war process, Bailey (history, The Open U. and Oxford U., England) describes and comparatively analyzes earlier visions of European integration articulated by German-speaking intellectuals acting within three civil society organizations in the interwar and early postwar years: the group associated with the production of the cultural journal Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift fur europaisches Denken; the socialist political party, Internationaler Socialistischer Kampfbund; and Das Demokratische Deutschland, a cross-party coalition of exiles from Nazi Germany based in Switzerland. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Christian Bailey is Assistant Professor of History at Purchase College, State University of New York. After having completed his PhD at Yale University, he was appointed Max Kade Fellow at the Free University in Berlin and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the History of Emotions Research Center in the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.