By Geoffrey K. Roberts
There's an pressing desire for a ebook of this nature which gives scholars with all of the crucial info required and an entire definition of phrases. an ideal better half to eu politics at the present time, written by way of an analogous authors, this ebook offers prior occasions, renowned personalities, vital dates, businesses and electoral details in an obtainable, easy-to-read layout. The booklet is divided into 5 sections for ease of use: a dictionary of important political occasions, a chronology of significant occasions in Europe seeing that 1945, a biographical dictionary, a dictionary of political businesses and electoral information. as well as being a entire reference instrument, this ebook is meant to supply a valid old history to the advance of Western eu politics.
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