First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Preface 1. Introduction 2. 1815 - The Last Phase of a Traditional World 3. Industrialisation and the Progressive Economic Integration of Europe from 1815 to the 1870s 4. The Conflict Between the Economic Urge Towards Integration and the Political Drive Towards Autarky from the 1870s to 1914 5. Wars and Economic Disintegration, 1914 - 1945 6. Integration in a Divided Europe 7. Conclusion