Erik Goldstein
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198215844
- eISBN:
- 9780191678226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198215844.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Military History
This chapter examines how Great Britain's peace settlement plan materialized at the Paris peace conference in France. The British delegation did not have an overall strategic view of the post-war ...
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This chapter examines how Great Britain's peace settlement plan materialized at the Paris peace conference in France. The British delegation did not have an overall strategic view of the post-war world given the complex concerns of the Empire but the delegates were able to come through with basic principles which did not mutually contradict one another and which run right through British thinking on the post-war order. These principles were the New Europe, the balance of power, and imperial expansion.Less
This chapter examines how Great Britain's peace settlement plan materialized at the Paris peace conference in France. The British delegation did not have an overall strategic view of the post-war world given the complex concerns of the Empire but the delegates were able to come through with basic principles which did not mutually contradict one another and which run right through British thinking on the post-war order. These principles were the New Europe, the balance of power, and imperial expansion.
Mary Elise Sarotte
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691163710
- eISBN:
- 9781400852307
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691163710.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on the world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from ...
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This book explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on the world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, the book describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, and Russia got left on the periphery of the new Europe. Chapters cover changes in the Summer and Autumn of 1989, including the stepping back of Americans and rise in East German's confidence; the restoration of the rights of the Four Powers, including the night of November 9 and the Portugalov Push; heroic aspirations in 1990, including the emerging controversy over reparations and NATO; security, political and economic solutions; the securing of building permits, including money and NATO reform; and the legacy of 1989 and 1990. This updated edition contains a new afterword with the most recent evidence on the 1990 origins of NATO's post-Cold War expansion.Less
This book explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on the world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, the book describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, and Russia got left on the periphery of the new Europe. Chapters cover changes in the Summer and Autumn of 1989, including the stepping back of Americans and rise in East German's confidence; the restoration of the rights of the Four Powers, including the night of November 9 and the Portugalov Push; heroic aspirations in 1990, including the emerging controversy over reparations and NATO; security, political and economic solutions; the securing of building permits, including money and NATO reform; and the legacy of 1989 and 1990. This updated edition contains a new afterword with the most recent evidence on the 1990 origins of NATO's post-Cold War expansion.
David Ayers
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780748647330
- eISBN:
- 9781474453820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748647330.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter offers a detailed account of Tomáš Masaryk’s extensive attempts to steer nationalities discourse in Britain, with a view to securing the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and ...
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This chapter offers a detailed account of Tomáš Masaryk’s extensive attempts to steer nationalities discourse in Britain, with a view to securing the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation of the new Czecho-Slovakian state. It describes Masaryk’s relationship with British supporters such as Robert William Seton-Watson, and their creation of the journal The New Europe as a platform for advocating total victory in the war, and articulating the cultural right to independent existence of the constituent nations of the Habsburg Empire.Less
This chapter offers a detailed account of Tomáš Masaryk’s extensive attempts to steer nationalities discourse in Britain, with a view to securing the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation of the new Czecho-Slovakian state. It describes Masaryk’s relationship with British supporters such as Robert William Seton-Watson, and their creation of the journal The New Europe as a platform for advocating total victory in the war, and articulating the cultural right to independent existence of the constituent nations of the Habsburg Empire.
Levene Mark
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199683031
- eISBN:
- 9780191763120
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199683031.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History, European Modern History
This chapter asks the question could things have been different, could the advent of a more general 'peace' in the 1920s have been accompanied by alternative ways of thinking and practising ...
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This chapter asks the question could things have been different, could the advent of a more general 'peace' in the 1920s have been accompanied by alternative ways of thinking and practising inter-communal co-existence in the 'New Europe' and beyond? We look at some experimental efforts not least associated with Soviet korenitzatsia (indigenisation) as potentially hopeful signs. In the upshot, however, we are forced to conclude that the outlook for what had become communal 'minorities' in the rimlands' arena was a decidedly bleak one. Our focus turns at this juncture to the new Turkish Kemalist state's genocidal response to Kurdish rebellions in the east. And finally to the "Assyrian affair' a military operation against a minority community in Turkey's formerly British-administered neighbour, Iraq, which sent shock waves through the League of Nations.Less
This chapter asks the question could things have been different, could the advent of a more general 'peace' in the 1920s have been accompanied by alternative ways of thinking and practising inter-communal co-existence in the 'New Europe' and beyond? We look at some experimental efforts not least associated with Soviet korenitzatsia (indigenisation) as potentially hopeful signs. In the upshot, however, we are forced to conclude that the outlook for what had become communal 'minorities' in the rimlands' arena was a decidedly bleak one. Our focus turns at this juncture to the new Turkish Kemalist state's genocidal response to Kurdish rebellions in the east. And finally to the "Assyrian affair' a military operation against a minority community in Turkey's formerly British-administered neighbour, Iraq, which sent shock waves through the League of Nations.
Michael Gott
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780748698677
- eISBN:
- 9781474421966
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748698677.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Over the past two decades road cinema has become an increasingly popular form of expression for European directors. Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, including works ...
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Over the past two decades road cinema has become an increasingly popular form of expression for European directors. Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, including works by Ismaël Ferroukhi, Bouli Lanners, Aki Kaurismäki and Jacqueline Audry amongst many others, French-language Road Cinema contends that nowhere is the impulse to remap the spaces and identities of ‘New Europe’ more evident than in French-language cinema. Drawing on mobility studies, cultural geography and film theory, this innovative work sketches out the flexible yet distinctive parameters of contemporary French-language road cinema, and argues for an understanding of the ‘road movie’ not as a genre but as a thematic and formal template that crosses cinematic categories to bring together a wide array of films that narrate the movements of migrants, tourists and business executives.Less
Over the past two decades road cinema has become an increasingly popular form of expression for European directors. Focusing on a corpus of films from France, Belgium and Switzerland, including works by Ismaël Ferroukhi, Bouli Lanners, Aki Kaurismäki and Jacqueline Audry amongst many others, French-language Road Cinema contends that nowhere is the impulse to remap the spaces and identities of ‘New Europe’ more evident than in French-language cinema. Drawing on mobility studies, cultural geography and film theory, this innovative work sketches out the flexible yet distinctive parameters of contemporary French-language road cinema, and argues for an understanding of the ‘road movie’ not as a genre but as a thematic and formal template that crosses cinematic categories to bring together a wide array of films that narrate the movements of migrants, tourists and business executives.
John Cunningham
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231171991
- eISBN:
- 9780231850704
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231171991.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines the films Meeting Venus (1991) and Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe (Édes Emma, drága Böbe, 1992), both directed by István Szabó. In the 1990s there was much talk in Hungary and in the ...
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This chapter examines the films Meeting Venus (1991) and Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe (Édes Emma, drága Böbe, 1992), both directed by István Szabó. In the 1990s there was much talk in Hungary and in the other countries of the former Eastern Bloc about “joining Europe,” which of course actually meant joining the European Union, as if this would somehow be the final episode in an untroubled, seamless transition from Hungary's homespun and very much watered-down version of Stalinism to a full-blooded embrace of free-market capitalism. The “new” Europe did not usher in some new dawn of utopian bliss and prosperity; instead it brought its own set of different problems. Both Meeting Venus and Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe demonstrate a keen awareness of the pitfalls awaiting Hungarians (and others) in the “New Europe,” the changes within Hungary, and the fresh brutalities of the so-called free market and its consequences, side effects and spin-offs.Less
This chapter examines the films Meeting Venus (1991) and Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe (Édes Emma, drága Böbe, 1992), both directed by István Szabó. In the 1990s there was much talk in Hungary and in the other countries of the former Eastern Bloc about “joining Europe,” which of course actually meant joining the European Union, as if this would somehow be the final episode in an untroubled, seamless transition from Hungary's homespun and very much watered-down version of Stalinism to a full-blooded embrace of free-market capitalism. The “new” Europe did not usher in some new dawn of utopian bliss and prosperity; instead it brought its own set of different problems. Both Meeting Venus and Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe demonstrate a keen awareness of the pitfalls awaiting Hungarians (and others) in the “New Europe,” the changes within Hungary, and the fresh brutalities of the so-called free market and its consequences, side effects and spin-offs.
Johan P. Olsen
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198800606
- eISBN:
- 9780191840081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198800606.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, European Union
Democratic agents are supposed to speak the truth so that there is consistency between what they do and what they say. There is, nevertheless, a tension between cultural demands for responsible and ...
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Democratic agents are supposed to speak the truth so that there is consistency between what they do and what they say. There is, nevertheless, a tension between cultural demands for responsible and accountable actors and the difficulties of establishing responsibility and accountability objectively. Possibly, the tension may contribute to a separation of political talk and political action and this chapter explores factors that may contribute to making it possible for a polity to thrive despite inconsistencies between official narratives and organized practice, and to avoid accountability demands challenging the legitimacy of the political order. This is done using Norway as an example of a fairly settled and legitimate polity integrated by several different ties, and the EU as an example of an emerging order and an unsettled polity with problematic legitimacy and still in search of a unifying narrative.Less
Democratic agents are supposed to speak the truth so that there is consistency between what they do and what they say. There is, nevertheless, a tension between cultural demands for responsible and accountable actors and the difficulties of establishing responsibility and accountability objectively. Possibly, the tension may contribute to a separation of political talk and political action and this chapter explores factors that may contribute to making it possible for a polity to thrive despite inconsistencies between official narratives and organized practice, and to avoid accountability demands challenging the legitimacy of the political order. This is done using Norway as an example of a fairly settled and legitimate polity integrated by several different ties, and the EU as an example of an emerging order and an unsettled polity with problematic legitimacy and still in search of a unifying narrative.
Massimo Montanari
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231167864
- eISBN:
- 9780231539081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231167864.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
This chapter talks about meat. Humans constructed their own artificial existence, separate from the world of nature and animals, by developing techniques for exploiting the natural environment. They ...
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This chapter talks about meat. Humans constructed their own artificial existence, separate from the world of nature and animals, by developing techniques for exploiting the natural environment. They designed a new landscape of fields, vineyards, and planted trees from which only humans succeeded in producing food (bread), drink (wine), and fat (oil). Herding and hunting also became activities of production, and meat was abundant on Roman tables. However, meat was also associated with a less “civilized” exploitation of the land. Therefore, people who lived primarily on hunting and herding were represented as “uncivilized” or “barbarian.” During the Middle Ages, these “uncivilized” and “barbarian” peoples conquered the western part of the Roman empire and became the rulers of the new Europe. They imposed their culture, including their unique ways of seeing the land and the modalities of its exploitation, and gave meat primary status.Less
This chapter talks about meat. Humans constructed their own artificial existence, separate from the world of nature and animals, by developing techniques for exploiting the natural environment. They designed a new landscape of fields, vineyards, and planted trees from which only humans succeeded in producing food (bread), drink (wine), and fat (oil). Herding and hunting also became activities of production, and meat was abundant on Roman tables. However, meat was also associated with a less “civilized” exploitation of the land. Therefore, people who lived primarily on hunting and herding were represented as “uncivilized” or “barbarian.” During the Middle Ages, these “uncivilized” and “barbarian” peoples conquered the western part of the Roman empire and became the rulers of the new Europe. They imposed their culture, including their unique ways of seeing the land and the modalities of its exploitation, and gave meat primary status.
