What can Europe? ADENINE continent? A political institution? A cultural community? Bringing together 101 key texts on the theme of Caucasian identity, this reader offering essential insights into which idea of 'Europe', coming 450 BC to the twenty first-time century. The only accumulation in its kind in English, it includes rare and recently translated material alongside typical texts starting classic and the Enlightenment, from figures as diverse as Artistes, Immanuel Kant, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Winston S. Churchill and Julia Kristeva. Space is also given to views in Europe from the outside, including Oriental, African, Latin American, US additionally Caribbean originators. With an introductory overview, notes on each text, and a guide to further reading, Alex Drace-Francis brings issues of European profile into sharp relief for couple teachers and students of European history, geography, culture and government.