Waging War and Making Peace
Description
The history of Europe is marked not only by violence and division but also by efforts to reduce the destructiveness of war. In this volume, the authors explore the meaning of 'Europe' within war and peace discourses from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. They examine imagined wars, the post-1815 security order, the portrayal of Russian and Muslim 'Others,' double standards in international law, pacifist rhetoric, and the role of 'Europe' in war propaganda and resistance movements. The authors demonstrate how both war and peace practices have shaped the concept of 'Europe' over time.
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Matthew D'Auria, University of East Anglia; Rolf Petri , University of Venice; Jan Vermeiren , University of East Anglia
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- On (Some) European Ways of Waging War and Making Peace: An Introduction
- Utopian Europe? On History, Politics and Progress in Saint-Pierre's Projet de paix perpétuelle
- Waging Future Wars: The Reign of George VI, Imagined Conflicts and the Birth of a Global Consciousness in the European Mind
- The Framework of War and Imperialism in Carl Schmitt's Philosophy
- European Unity and the "Enemies of Humankind": The French Revolution, Napoleon and the Case of Russia, 1791-1814
- The Great Transformation: A New Perspective on the Post-1815 Security Order
- Towards the Community of Freedom: European Public Opinion and Poetry About the November Uprising in Poland, 1830-1831
- A War for the Future of Europe: The Belgian Image of the Russian Other during the Crimean War
- Literary Propaganda for European Federation: Sir Max Pemberton's pacifist Invasion Novel War and the Woman (1912)
- Europe, Islam and The First World War
- Notions of Europe in the Age of the World Wars: European Semantics in Discourses of War and Peace, 1914-1945
- "The Guardians of Civilization": The Little Entente of Women in Post-Versailles Europe
- Vichy France in the European Crusade against Liberalism and Bolshevism, 1940-1944
- For a European Peace: Ideas of Europe in the Propaganda of Academic Groups in Resistance against Fascism, 1939-1945
- War and Peace, Culture, and European Identity in the Early Twentieth Century
- European Unity during the Cold War, 1945-1960
- List of Contributors
- Index
