Belgium
Subtitle: A History (Studies in Modern European History, V. 50)
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780820458243
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); World history; History; History: World; Western Continental Europe; Western Europe - General; Belgium
Description: "This history is essential for understanding the complexities of issues that led to a devolution of the unitary Belgian state into a federation of linguistically based regions. In addition to the elements that contributed to Belgium's particular political evolution, the history which is traced in this book is a composite of many themes of broad historical interest and importance.

Belgium: A History covers the gamut of Belgian history through dramas of religious and cultural conflict, intense localism, state building, uneven development, divergent class interests, war and domination, and finally, integration into a larger European community."--BOOK JACKET.