Anti-liberal Europe : : A Neglected Story of Europeanization / / ed. by Dieter Gosewinkel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Conway, Martin,; Conze, Vanessa,; Elvert, Jürgen,; Freeden, Michael,; Gosewinkel, Dieter,; Klose, Fabian,; Ruge, Undine,; Schöttler, Peter,; Wuestenhagen, Jana,
• HerausgeberIn: Gosewinkel, Dieter,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: New German Historical Perspectives ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)

The history of modern Europe is often presented with the hindsight of present-day European integration, which was a genuinely liberal project based on political and economic freedom. Many other visions for Europe developed in the 20th century, however, were based on an idea of community rooted in pre-modern religious ideas, cultural or ethnic homogeneity, or even in coercion and violence. They frequently rejected the idea of modernity or reinterpreted it in an antiliberal manner. Anti-liberal Europe examines these visions, including those of anti-modernist Catholics, conservatives, extreme rightists as well as communists, arguing that antiliberal concepts in 20th-century Europe were not the counterpart to, but instead part of the process of European integration.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Part I. Concepts -- Introduction: Anti-liberal Europe – A Neglected Source of Europeanism -- 1 The Elusiveness of European (Anti-)liberalism -- Part II Anti-liberalism: A Feature of Colonial and Conservative Concepts of Europe -- 2 Europe as a Colonial Project: A Critique of its Anti-liberalism -- 3 Facing the Future Backwards: ‘Abendland’ as an Anti-liberal Idea of Europe in Germany between the First World War and the 1960s -- 4 The Call for a New European Order: Origins and Variants of the Anti-liberal Concept of the ‘Europe of the Regions’ -- Part III. Anti-liberal Europe in Dictatorships and their Aftermath -- 5 The ‘New European Order’ of National Socialism Some Remarks on its Sources, Genesis and Nature -- 6 Three Kinds of Collaboration Concepts of Europe and the ‘Franco-German Understanding’ – The Career of SS-Brigadeführer Gustav Krukenberg -- 7 Communist Europeanism: A Case Study of the GDR -- Afterword: The Limits of an Anti-liberal Europe -- Notes on Contributors -- Index