Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Ideas of Europe -- PART I European cultural identities -- Chapter 2 The peopling of Europe -- The Celts and the Celtic fringe -- The peopling of Finland -- Chapter 3 European languages -- Hungary, Hungarians and the Hungarian language -- The geography of languages in Switzerland -- Chapter 4 Religious dimensions of European culture -- Judaism and Islam -- The Waldensians -- Chapter 5 Cultural landscapes -- Narratives and names: Irish landscape meanings -- Mentalités, ideologies and modern Greek landscape management -- PART II Political dimensions -- Chapter 6 Nations and peoples -- The Basques -- Slovenia -- Chapter 7 A revolutionary idea -- Revolutions in France and Europe, c.1750-c. 1900 -- The clock-making Jura: cradle of anarchism -- Chapter 8 Political parties -- Italian politics: anomaly or extreme example of contemporary European experience? -- The environmental agenda in the Czech Republic -- Chapter 9 The European Union: cumulative and uneven integration -- The northern expansion -- Turkey and the EU -- PART III Economic production and exchange -- Chapter 10 Agricultural production -- Agri-environmental issues in Germany -- The transformation of agricultural cooperatives in Slovakia -- Chapter 11 Industrial restructuring in Europe: recent tendencies in the organization and geography of production -- Transforming the motor vehicle industry in Hungary, 1989-95 -- Industrial restructuring in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area: towards a new map of production? -- Chapter 12 European financial systems -- The development of regional banks in Hungary and the Czech Republic -- Always here and there: the City of London