A More Perfect Union: Federal Union in Political Theory and Practice, 1500-1951

This book tells the history of the ’federal union’, a concept that may be traced from the early Renaissance to the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community (1951), the predecessor of today’s European Union.

Joshua Livestro worked as political adviser in London, Brussels, and The Hague before becoming a columnist and essayist. He published in the Wall Street Journal, Politico, and NRC Handelsblad. Previous book: De Adem van Grootheid, a history of 1950s Holland (Prometheus, Amsterdam).