European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957

Informationen zum Autor Dina Gusejnova is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield. Born in Moscow, she has taught at Queen Mary University of London, University College London, the University of Chicago and the University of Cambridge, where she received her Ph.D. Klappentext Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access. Zusammenfassung Evaluating the period between the revolutions of 1917 to 1920 and the beginning of Europe's postwar integration in 1957! this book explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century European political practice and as a specific project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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; Bibliography; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dina Gusejnova, Dina (University of Sheffield) Gusejnova, Gusejnova Dina
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781107543584
• ISBN: 978-1-107-54358-4
• Pagine: 392
• Serie: New Studies in European History; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism