Introduction / Anthony Pagden -- Europe : conceptualizing a continent / Anthony Pagden -- Some Europes in their history / J.G.A. Pocock -- "Europe" in the Middle Ages / William Chester Jordan -- The republican mirror : the Dutch idea of Europe / Hans W. Blom -- The Napoleonic empire and the Europe of nations / Biancamaria Fontana -- Homo politicus and homo oeconomicus : the European citizen according to Max Weber / Wilfried Nippel -- The European self : rethinking an attitude / Michael Herzfeld -- European nationalism and European union / Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia -- From the ironies of identity to the identities of irony / Luisa Passerini -- Muslims and European identity : can Europe represent Islam? / Talal Asad -- The long road to unity : the contribution of law to the process of European integration since 1945 / Philip Ruttley -- The euro, economic federalism, and the question of national sovereignty / Elie Cohen -- Identity politics and European integration : the case of Germany / Thomas Risse and Daniela Engelmann-Martin -- Nationalisms in Spain : the organization of convivencia / Andrés de Blas Guerrero -- The Kantian idea of Europe : critical and cosmopolitan perspectives / James Tully.