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Article: Europe Was Yesterday
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- The American Spectator
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Europe Was Yesterday The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent By Walter Laqueur (THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS/ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 243 pages, $25.95)
Reviewed by Joseph A. Harriss
OFTEN DECLARED IN ITS DEATH THROES Over the last 200 years, Europe has been a long time dying. France in particular, bled white by Napoleon's wars, was considered down for the count following its defeat by the Prussians in 1871, and again after the humiliating capitulation of 1940. Twentiethcentury European historians and philosophers from Oswald Spengler to Jean-Paul Sartre saw no future for it following the determined destruction and mass slaughter ofthat century's two European wars. More recently articles ...