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03218aam a2200457 i 4500 001 B56D0A9AA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 008 160401s2016 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016000257 020 $a 1107120624 020 $a 9781107120624 035 $a (OCoLC)946010146 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d ERASA $d YDXCP $d GZM $d YUS $d CHVBK $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gw--- 050 00 $a D727 G84 2016 100 1 $a Gusejnova, Dina, $e author. 245 10 $a European elites and ideas of empire, 1917-1957 / $c Dina Gusejnova, University of Sheffield. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xlvii, 344 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a New studies in European history 520 2 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 651 0 $a Europe $x Politics and government $y 1918-1945. 651 0 $a Europe $x Politics and government $y 1945- 650 0 $a Supranationalism $z Europe $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x History $z Europe $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Transnationalism $x History $z Europe $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Elite (Social sciences) $z Europe $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Intellectuals $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Aristocracy (Social class) $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Germany $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Germany $x Politics and government $y 20th century. 830 0 $a New studies in European history. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020012933.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161202013423.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B56D0A9AA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search