ISBN:
9789052016504
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (524 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other : Fourth Printing with Changes
DDC:
305.8/0094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book contributes to the debate on what Europe means by demonstrating the complexities and contradictions inherent in the concept. They are seen most clearly when Europe is viewed from a long historical perspective. During the closing decades of the twentieth century Europe emerged as one of the main points of reference in both the cultural and the political constructs of the global community. An obsession with the concept of European identity is readily discernible. This process of identity construction provokes critical questions which the book aims to address. At the same time the book
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface 11; Introduction: Europe as a Discourse 13; by Bo Stråth; Chapter 1: The Last Identification: Why Some of Us Would Like to Call Ourselves Europeans and What We Mean by This 45; by Luisa Passerini; Chapter 2: The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity 67; by Hayden White; Chapter 3: A European Identity? 87; by Lutz Niethammer; Chapter 4: Foundation Myths and Collective Identities in Early Modern Europe 113; by Peter Burke; Chapter 5: Decline or Renaissance: The Transformation of European Consciousness after the First World War 123; by Katiana Orluc
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6: "The Third World" as an Element in the Collective Construction of a Post-Colonial European Identity 157by Erik Tängerstad; Chapter 7: Race as a Construction of the Other: "Native Americans" and "Negroes" in the 18th Century Editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica 195; by Silvia Sebastiani; Chapter 8: Doing Christianity and Europe: An Inquiry into Memory, Boundary and Truth Practices in Malta 229; by Gerold Gerber; Chapter 9: In-between Nations: Ambivalence and the Making of a European Identity 279; by Patrizia Isabelle Nanz
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 10: Leningrad into St. Petersburg: The Dream of Europe on the Margins 311by Svetlana Boym; Chapter 11: The Social Construction of "Europe": Life-Cycles of Nation-State Identities in France, Germany and Great Britain 325; by Martin Marcussen & Klaus Roscher; Chapter 12: The Swedish Image of Europe as the Other 359; by Bo Stråth; Chapter 13: Multiple Europes: Integration, Identity and Demarcation to the Other 385; by Bo Stråth; Chapter 14: Coal, Steel and Spirit. The Double Reading of European Unity (1948-1951) 421; by J. Peter Burgess; Bibliography 457; About the Contributors 515;
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