A critical analysis of the idea of Europe and the limits and possibilities of a European identity in the broader perspective of history. This book argues that t

Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.

As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world

This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.

The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and by and by helped to real