Abstract
Although the ideological schism in Europe after 1945 destroyed the original hopes of a completely united approach to the continent’s problems, the concept of European unity nevertheless fired many imaginative minds, particularly in the West. The organisations that emerged from these aspirations, set within the existing political-geographical framework, are slowly but inexorably changing the broader functional regional frameworks as a search for a new and hopefully realistic cohesion has been sought.
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An excellent small atlas of the Community is The European Community in Maps (Ed. I. B. F. Kormoss), Press and Information Service, European Communities, Brussels (1974); also Atlas of Europe — A Profile of Western Europe (Ed. G. S. Browne), Bartholomew and Warne, London (1974).
A small atlas of the Eastern European Comecon members and other socialist states is Thematische Karten zur Welt von Heute — Teil VI: Sozialistische Staaten Europas (ohne UdSSR), Verlag Bagel, Düsseldorf (1972).
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© 1979 Roy E.H. Mellor and E. Alistair Smith
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Mellor, R.E.H., Smith, E.A. (1979). Profiles. In: Europe. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16101-0_7
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