European elites and ideas of empire, 1917-1957 /

Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff dynasties over their...

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Hlavní autor: Gusejnova, Dina (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Edice:New Studies in European History.
On-line přístup:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316343050
Obsah:
  • Part I. Celebrity of Decline
  • 1. Famous deaths : subjects of imperial decline
  • 2. Shared horizons : the sentimental elite in the Great War
  • Part II. Power of Prestige
  • 3. Soft power : pan-Europeanism after the Habsburgs
  • 4. The German princes : an aristocratic fraction in the democratic age
  • 5. Crusaders of civility : the legal internationalism of the Baltic Barons
  • Part III. Phantom Empires
  • 6. Knights of many faces : the dream of chivalry and its dreamers
  • 7. Apostles of elegy : Bloomsbury's continental connections
  • Epilogue
  • Archives.