ABSTRACT
Given the destruction and suffering caused by more than four years of industrialised warfare and economic hardship, scholars have tended to focus on the nationalism and hatred in the belligerent countries, holding that it led to a fundamental rupture of any sense of European commonality and unity. It is the central aim of this volume to correct this view and to highlight that many observers saw the conflict as a ‘European civil war’, and to discuss what this meant for discourses about Europe. Bringing together a remarkable range of compelling and highly original topics, this collection explores notions, images, and ideas of Europe in the midst of catastrophe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|21 pages
Introduction
1Notions, images, and ideas of Europe in the midst of disaster, 1914–1918
chapter 5|17 pages
A new world?
German and French debates about America and Europe during the First World War
chapter 8|18 pages
‘La Jeune Europe’
Masses, anti-militarism and moral reformation in the Banfi–Caffi correspondence (1910–1919)
chapter 11|21 pages
Europe under threat
Visual projections of Europe in Raemaekers’ First World War cartoons
chapter 12|19 pages
The tenacity of European self-esteem at the time of the First World War
Examples from architecture and the visual arts
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