Europe in Crisis

Mark Hewitson is Senior Lecturer in German History and Politics and Chair of the Centre for European Studies at University College London. His publications include books on National Identity and Political Thought in Germany (OUP, 2000), Germany and the Causes of the First World War (Berg, 2004), Nationalism in Germany, 1848-1866 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) and What is a Nation? Europe, 1789-1914 (OUP, 2006, co-edited with Timothy Baycroft). Matthew D'Auria is completing his PhD in history at University College London, where he has taught European history, and social and political thought. He has published various studies of the relationship between nationalism and internationalism in the history of European political thought from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. He is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Salerno.

• List of Maps and FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Europe during the Forty Years’ CrisisPART :I PROLOGUEChapter 1. The United States of Europe: The European Question in the 1920sMark HewitsonChapter 2. Europe and the Fate of the World: Crisis and Integration in the Late 1940s and 1950sMark HewitsonChapter 3. Inventing Europe and Reinventing the Nation-State in a New World OrderMark HewitsonPART II: REIMAGINING THE PASTChapter 4. Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi, Founder of the Pan-European Union, and the Birth of a ‘New’ EuropeAnita Prettenthaler-ZiegerhoferChapter 5. Noble Continent? German-Speaking Nobles as Theorists of European Identity in the Interwar PeriodDina GusejnovaChapter 6. Imperium Europaeum: Rudolf Pannwitz and the German Idea of EuropeJan VermeirenChapter 7. New Middle Ages or New Modernity? Carl Schmitt’s Interwar Perspective on Political Unity in EuropeIonut UnteaChapter 8. Rosenzweig, Schmitt and the Concept of EuropeVittorio CotestaChapter 9. From Centre to Province: Changing Images of Europe in the Writings of Jerzy StempowskiŁukasz MikołajewskiPART III: MAKING SENSE OF THE PRESENTChapter 10. Visualizing Europe from 1900 to the 1950s: Identity on the MoveMichael WintleChapter 11. Europe and the Artistic Patrimony of the Interwar Period: The International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation at the League of NationsAnnamaria DucciChapter 12. Huizinga, Intellectual Cooperation and the Spirit of Europe, 1933–1945Anne-Isabelle RichardChapter 13. The Idea of European Unity in Heinrich Mann’s Political Essays of the 1920s and Early 1930sErnest SchonfieldChapter 14. Lucien Febvre and the Idea of EuropeVittorio DiniPART IV: LOOKING TO THE FUTUREChapter 15. Junius and the ‘President Professor’: Luigi Einaudi’s European FederalismMatthew D’AuriaChapter 16. Federate or Perish: The Continuity and Persistence of the Federal Idea in Europe, 1917–1957Michael BurgessConclusion: Europe between a Crisis of Culture and Political RegenerationNotes on ContributorsSelect BibliographyIndex

"The contributions are of a high standard - In almost all cases there was much that is new and interesting. There is more than enough substance, interest and range for this to be an effective contribution." * Peter Stirk, Durham University "[A]n excellent introduction to the history of the concept of 'Europe' that preceded the founding of the European Community in 1957. Spanning a wide range of authors and topics, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the intellectual history of European integration." * Egbert Klautke, University College London