The idea of Central Europe
| Titel: | The idea of Central Europe : geopolitics, culture and regional identity / Otilia Dhand |
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| Veröffentlicht: | London; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2018 |
| Umfang: | viii, 277 Seiten : Diagramme, Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Tauris historical geography series ; 12 |
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| ISBN: | 9781784538538 ; 9781786723987 ; 9781786733986 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- List of Figures
- p. ix
- Preface
- p. x
- 1
- Introduction: The Puzzle of Central Europe
- p. 1
- The emerging puzzle
- p. 1
- The pivot of geopolitics?
- p. 6
- Approaching Central Europe
- p. 7
- 2
- Germany: Mitteleuropa - Realm of the German Nation
- p. 13
- The narrative of German Central Europe
- p. 14
- Shifting identifies: from Germany to Central Europe
- p. 19
- Nationalist dream or pragmatic customs union?
- p. 27
- Friedrich Naumann and wartime concepts
- p. 31
- Unsuccessful agitators vs. unimpressed government
- p. 37
- A tale of wartime Mitteleuropa
- p. 40
- Central Europe in German imperial policy
- p. 49
- 3
- Austria-Hungary: Pan-German Paper Dreams
- p. 52
- The legacy of 1848: Austria goes its own way
- p. 52
- The pan-German movement
- p. 53
- The Belvedere Circle
- p. 58
- The pan-German revival
- p. 60
- Central Europe the Austrian way
- p. 64
- Challengers: from Kramár to Masaryk
- p. 70
- A winding path to a dead end
- p. 78
- Strength and weakness of the other
- p. 87
- 4
- Britain and the United States: What the Enemy Covets
- p. 91
- 'Seat of war'
- p. 91
- Shifting threat perceptions
- p. 93
- The Foreign Office and Masaryk's dismemberment plan
- p. 97
- The view from across the Atlantic: the Inquiry
- p. 102
- The stillborn mid-European Union of 1918
- p. 106
- The construction of the other
- p. 109
- 5
- Central Europe 1880-1918: Unsuccessful Exercises in Geopolitics
- p. 111
- The battle for definition
- p. 111
- Central Europe equals pan-German Europe
- p. 117
- Central Europe in policy-makers' minds
- p. 122
- Smart propaganda that failed
- p. 130
- 6
- Variations in Time and Space
- p. 133
- Interwar discourse: from Danubian Federation to Reich, 1919-39
- p. 133
- World War II: return of the Middle Tier, 1939-45
- p. 147
- Cold War: a non-existent concept, 1945-84
- p. 160
- Breaking ice: the anti-politics of Central Europe, 1984-9
- p. 170
- A brand new game: integration tautology, 1989 -2004
- p. 179
- The ebbs and flows of theorizing
- p. 192
- 7
- Conclusions: Central Europe and Beyond
- p. 196
- The forging of Central Europe
- p. 196
- Central Europe is back. Again!
- p. 199
- 8
- Postscript: Beyond Central Europe
- p. 201
- Appendix 1
- 'Tshirschky to Bethmann-Hollweg', 1 September 1914
- p. 203
- Notes
- p. 209
- Index
- p. 260
