TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michael Wintle
PY  - 2012
CY  - Bruxelles, Belgium
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035262452
TI  - Imagining Europe
T2  - Europe and European Civilisation as Seen from its Margins and by the Rest of the World, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0352-6245-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043983
N2  - What do people think ‘Europe’ means? What are its values, what are its borders, and what does it stand for? An important topic, without doubt. But the authors of this research collection are not so much interested in what Europe thinks of itself, but rather in what others think of it. They take a number of scenarios from recent history, and examine how Europe has appeared to people in other parts of the globe: America, China, the Arab world, for example. But they go further, and pose the question for some parts of the world which are ‘inside’ Europe, but which for one reason or another hover on the margins, like the Balkans, and Turkey. Furthermore they include the views about Europe held in parts of the continent which have without any doubt whatsoever belonged to Europe’s core, but which much of the rest of Europe, later, would like to forget about, or marginalise: Stalin’s Russia, and Hitler’s Germany. Most of the elements investigated here are central to the imagining of Europe, and despite many Europeans’ wish to distance themselves, such views should be recognised and taken up as an important and indispensable contribution to the debate about ‘What is Europe?’
KW  - Europa, Öffentliche Meinung, Kongress, Amsterdam (2005), L'idée de l'Europe, Identité européenne, Les idées staliniennes et nazies au sujet de l'Eu, Geschichte 1800-2000, Les idées chinoises, turques et balkaniques au su, Les idées lat, Fremdbild
LA  - English
ER  -