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Author Gusejnova, Dina, author.

Title European elites and ideas of empire, 1917-1957 / Dina Gusejnova University of Sheffield.

Publication Info. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Description 1 electronic resource (xlvii, 344 pages).
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Series New studies in European history
New studies in European history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-316) and index.
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.
Summary "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 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Aristocracy (Social class) -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Aristocracy (Social class)
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Elite (Social sciences) -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Elite (Social sciences)
Europe.
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Imperialism -- Social aspects.
Imperialism.
Intellectuals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Supranationalism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Supranationalism.
Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Transnationalism.
Social aspects.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1918-1945
Subject Europe -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Chronological Term 1945-
Subject Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Intellectual life.
Germany -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Intellectuals.
HISTORY / Europe / General.
Civilization.
European Union countries.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: European elites and ideas of empire, 1917-1957 Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Cambridge University Press, 2016. 9781107120624 (hardback) (DLC) 2016000257
ISBN 9781107120624 hardback
9781316667958 (electronic book)
1316667952 (electronic book)

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