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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gusejnova, Dina (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:New studies in European history.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.