CONTENTS

Title Page

Dedication

Disclaimer 

    

AN INTRODUCTION:

Setting the scene for contemplation, on a bollard in Trieste

    

1 HOLY SYMPTOMS:

Sacred complexities of Europe, starting with paganism, ending with art

    

2 THE MISHMASH:

Europe’s ethnic and geographical confusion, embracing frontiers, minorities, enclaves, islands, anomalies and miscellaneous surprises

    

3 NATIONS, STATES AND BLOODY POWERS:

The mess the Europeans have made of their continent, country by country

    

4 THE INTERNET:

Despite itself, Europe is bound together by habit and technique

    

5 SPASMS OF UNITY:

Six attempts to make a whole of Europe, from the Holy Roman Empire to the European Union

    

AN EPILOGUE:

Wry smiles and brave hopes, back on the Trieste waterfront

    

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