Visions and ideas of Europe during the First World War / edited by Matthew D'Auria and Jan Vermeiren.
"Given the destruction and suffering caused by more than four years of industrialised warfare and economic hardship, scholars have tended to focus on the nationalism and hatred in the belligerent countries, holding that it led to a fundamental rupture of any sense of European commonality and unity....
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2020.
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| Series: | Ideas beyond borders : studies in transnational intellectual history
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25cm. |
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Contents:
- Introduction: Notions, images, and ideas of Europe in the midst of disaster, 1914-1918 / Matthew D'Auria and Jan Vermeiren
- Decadence, messianism, and redemption: thinking Europe's Apocalypse, 1914-1918 / Matthew D'Auria
- In defence of Europe: Russia in German intellectual discourse, 1914-1918 / Jan Vermeiren
- Europe in the German pacifists' discourse during the Great War / Landry Charrier
- A new world?: German and French debates about America and Europe during the First World War / Egbert Klautke
- Élie Faure, his visions of war and his image of Europe / Annamaria Ducci
- Max Waechter, Anglo-German rapprochement and the European Unity League, 1906-1924 / Ulrich Tiedau
- 'La Jeune Europe': masses, anti-militarism and moral reformation in the Banfi-Caffi correspondence (1910-1919) / Marcello Gisondi
- Eagle and dwarf: Polish concepts of east central Europe, 1914-1921 / Maciej Górny
- Ideas of Europe in neutral Spain (1914-1918) / Maximiliano Fuentes Codera
- Europe under threat: visual projections of Europe in Raemaekers' First World War cartoons / Richard Deswarte
- The tenacity of European self-esteem at the time of the First World War: examples from architecture and the visual arts / Michael Wintle
- The legacy of war and the idea of Europe in the 1920s / Mark Hewitson.