The meaning of Europe: geography and geopolitics/

Main Author: Heffernan, Michael J., 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York: Arnold, 1998
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245 1 4 |a The meaning of Europe:   |b geography and geopolitics/  |c Michael Heffernan 
260 1 4 |a London ;  |b Arnold,  |c 1998  |a New York: 
300 1 4 |a viii, 294 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 1 4 |a Includes bibliography (p. [244]-284) and index. 
505 0 4 |a Introduction : geography and the meaning of Europe -- 1. Europe : the historical geography of an idea -- Introduction -- Christian Europe : the origins of modern territoriality -- Secular Europe : the balance of power -- Europe and its others : civilisational geopolitics -- People, nation, empire : the geopolitics of the masses -- Summary -- 2 Who is Europe : fin-de-siecle geopolitics -- Introduction -- The best of times : Paris in the spring -- The end of Europe : Eurasia and the geographical pivot -- A German alternative : Mitteleuropa -- Empire and the east : Germany's lebensraum -- The Russian realm : pan-Slavism -- Europe and its peoples : racial geopolitics -- The scientific frontier -- A regional utopia -- Summary -- 3. Land and power : the geopolitics of peace and war -- Introduction -- After the deluge, business as usual -- Europe reborn : the pan-Europa movement -- Radical regionalism -- The Weimar critiques : the geopolitics of resentment -- Nuova civilta? : Italian fascism and the idea of Europe -- A new order : Nazism and the idea of Europe -- Beyond the revolution : the Bolshevik critique -- The rape of Europa -- Resistance and the European idea -- Summary -- 4. The European ideal : united in division, divided in unity -- Introduction -- Cold War geopolitics -- East is east and west is west -- European ideals and realities -- L'Europe des patries -- The dilemmas of division -- Hope springs eternal -- The sadness of geography -- Summary -- Conclusion : the meaning of Europe in the twenty-first century. 
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