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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...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | New studies in European history
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/european-elites-and-ideas-of-empire-19171957/DC85C5D84467A2F4A8F8E5EE7BD2B4AA |
Table of Contents:
- 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.