The time and space of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi's Pan-Europe, 1923-1939
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Thorpe, Benjamin J.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of Nottingham
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2018
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
University of Nottingham
امتياز متن
2018
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This thesis investigates the historical geographies of the Pan-European Union, and its founder and leader Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, focusing in the main on the period from 1923 to 1939. A mixed-race Austrian aristocrat, philosopher and writer who made it his life's mission to see Europe politically united, Coudenhove-Kalergi's was a singular life, which he used to his advantage by weaving his life story into his political campaigning. The thesis opens by investigating the relationship between a life lived and a life told, and about the consequences for researchers attempting to recover his biography. The bulk of the thesis looks at the ways in which Pan-Europeanism both responded and itself contributed to shaping three broad sets of spatial and temporal ideas, each revolving around the notion of a supranational European polity. First, it confronts the way history was invoked both to bring into being a 'literature' that would add prestige to its arguments, and to craft a narrative arc that would add the force of apparent inevitability to its arguments. Second, it looks at the way in which Pan-Europeanism employed a form of spatial reasoning that shared many points of reference with the German school of geopolitik, despite a fundamentally incompatible view of international politics. And third, it analyses the Pan-European invention of 'Eurafrica' as a neo-colonial system that would offer a 'third path' internationalism that fell between the imperialism of the British Empire, and the Mandate-based theory of international governance advocated by the League. Each of these sets of ideas, I argue, persisted both outside the bounds of the Pan-European Union, and after its eventual marginalisation.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
D History (General)
موضوع مستند نشده
JN Political institutions (Europe)
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