Cosmopolitan Europe: A Strasbourg Self-Portrait

By John Western

Book Overview

Based on in-depth, lively interviews with 80 men and 80 women ranging from 101 to 20 years, and from all over the world (France, Germany, Alsace-Lorraine, Portugal, Italy, ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Cameroon, and Afghanistan amongst other countries), the author draws out of these powerful testimonies all sorts of compelling insights into issues of identity, race, nationality, culture, politics, heritage and representation, giving a unique and valuable view of what it means (and has meant over the past century) to be a European.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140944371X
• ISBN13: 9781409443711
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"