{"product_id":"european-elites-and-ideas-of-empire-1917-1957-hardback-9781107120624","title":"European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917–1957 (Hardback) 9781107120624","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEuropean Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917–1957\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDina Gusejnova (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107120624, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 June 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 27 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.2 cm, 0.75 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917–1957 has much to say about post-World War I elite attitudes toward the downfall of continental empires and postwar identity among German-speaking European elites. Rather than retreat into lives of resentment, resignation, or quiet dissolution, these men coped with the trauma of empire's end not only by re-envisioning European 'imperial' units but also by taking steps, whatever their results, to make it happen. … [Gusejnova's] study reveals a fascinating and distinctly eastern European branch of the intellectual genealogy of European unification.' Matthew G. Stanard, H-Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWho 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 subjects expired. Even though Germany lost its credit as a world power twice in that century, in the global cultural memory, the old Germanic families remained associated with the idea of Europe in areas reaching from Mexico to the Baltic region and India. Gusejnova's book sheds light on a group of German-speaking intellectuals of aristocratic origin who became pioneers of Europe's future regeneration. In the minds of transnational elites, the continent's future horizons retained the contours of phantom empires. This title is available as Open Access.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Celebrity of Decline: 1. Famous deaths: subjects of imperial decline\u003cbr\u003e 2. Shared horizons: the sentimental elite in the Great War\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Power of Prestige: 3. Soft power: pan-Europeanism after the Habsburgs\u003cbr\u003e 4. The German princes: an aristocratic fraction in the democratic age\u003cbr\u003e 5. Crusaders of civility: the legal internationalism of the Baltic Barons\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Phantom Empires: 6. Knights of many faces: the dream of chivalry and its dreamers\u003cbr\u003e 7. Apostles of elegy: Bloomsbury's continental connections\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%2220th%20century%20history:%20c%201900%20%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265618071832,"sku":"9781107120624","price":83.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107120624i.jpg?v=1696793467","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/european-elites-and-ideas-of-empire-1917-1957-hardback-9781107120624","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}