*** KRZYSZTOF POMIAN, HENRI DUPUIS (Eds.): De l'Europe-Monde à l'Europe dans le monde. De Boeck & Larcier (39 rue des Minimes, B-1000 Brussels. Internet: www.deboeck.com). 2004, 217 pp. ISBN 2-8041-4530-1.
The time has passed when Europe thought it was the centre of the world. After almost collapsing body and soul on two occasions, it has learned to be modest and leave it to others to believe they set the 'standards of civilisation', as Antoinette Spaak and Karel Van Miert put it in the...