Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1996 - Volume 50 - Numéro 1 - Pages 101-110For an adjectiveless history of Europe. The difficulties of a European history, full of geographical, conceptual, and methodological ambiguities, preclude any teleological history whose ambition would be to justify a historic march towards European Union. The strength of national histories and the role of binational confrontations in recent historical research support a history of Europe set between the national and the world, which would recall the tensions and the ruptures and would acknowledge that Europe is a contradictory form. 10 pages Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.