Ideas of Europe since 1914

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. European Identity, Europeanness and the First World War: Reflections on the Twentieth Century — an Introduction

   • Menno Spiering, Michael Wintle

   Pages 1-13

3. The Crisis of European Civilization After 1918

   • Jan Ifversen

   Pages 14-31

4. Aristide Briand’s Plan: The Seed of European Unification

   • Wim Roobol

   Pages 32-46

5. ‘Shatter Zones’: The Creation and Re-creation of Europe’s East

   • Peter Bugge

   Pages 47-68

6. The First World War and the Challenge to Democracy in Europe

   • Philip Morgan

   Pages 69-88

7. Remembering and Forgetting the First World War in Western Europe

   • Annette Becker

   Pages 89-104

8. Europe on Parade: The First World War and the Changing Visual Representations of the Continent in the Twentieth Century

   • Michael Wintle

   Pages 105-129

9. Europe and the Lost Generation: William Dieterle’s The Last Flight

   • Neil Sinyard

   Pages 130-141

10. ‘And Down We Went’: Fragments of Interwar Europe Seen from the British Metropolis

    • Aleid Fokkema

    Pages 142-159

11. Pacifism and the European Idea: War and Inner Conflict in the Work of Léon Werth

    • Manet van Montfrans

    Pages 160-176

12. Engineering Europe: The European Idea in Interbellum Literature, The Case of Panropa

    • Menno Spiering

    Pages 177-199

13. Back Matter

    Pages 201-208

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This book is about the history of Europe in the twentieth century and concentrates on two particular aspects. First, it examines the impact of the Great War on Europe; secondly it is concerned with European civilization and with ideas of what is meant to be 'European'. The approach is interdisciplinary, including integrated analyses from politics, international relations, political ideas, literature, and the visual arts. The common focus, which links all the chapters, is the effect of the Great War on a European mentality, or European identity. It targets reactions to the First World War up to 1939, but extends its coverage in many areas up to the 1990s, offering a wide-ranging view of Europe in the twentieth century.

• 20. Jahrhundert
• 20th century
• democracy
• Europe
• history

• International School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  Menno Spiering

• University of Hull, UK

  Michael Wintle

ANNETTE BECKER Chair in Modern History, University of Paris-X, Nanterre PETER BUGGE Associate Professor of Czech and European Studies, Head of Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Aarhus (DK) ALEID FOKKEMA Senior Lecturer in English, Utrecht University JAN IFVERSEN Associate Professor of European Studies, University of Aarhus (DK) MANET VAN MONTFRANS Lecturer, Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam PHILIP MORGAN Senior Lecturer in Contemporary European History, University of Hull NEIL SINYARD Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Hull WIM ROOBOL Chair of Modern European History, University of Amsterdam

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