| Book Review | Journal of World History, 14.2

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Book Review

A History of the European Economy, 1000–2000. By FRANÇOIS CROUZET. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2001. 329 pp. $26.50 (paper).

The project of world history requires great feats of imagination. In terms of economic history, one of its challenges is to explore and conceptualize new ligatures and connections between traditionally understood economic entities and economies and to imagine altogether new frameworks. A History of the European Economy, 1000–2000 is both a product of and a contribution to this imaginative process. François Crouzet is moving beyond a traditional "economic history of Europe" to a "history of the European economy," which he argues is "somewhat different." And it is. Crouzet has in mind an organic concept, Europe as a "living entity" (p. xiii), whose economy is not bound by fixed geographic borders but rather grows and contracts—in spatial, geographic terms as well as in traditional economic terms. This economy lives on, he implies, largely as the European Union. Questions today about the Euro focus primarily on whether Euro-zone countries have sufficient integration to be well served by one currency and one monetary policy. Crouzet is not a Euroskeptic. To him, a European economy and a European culture, closely linked, have "lived" since around 1000 C.E.

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