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Europe's Utopias of Peace - 1815, 1919, 1951 (Hardcover)
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Europe's Utopias of Peace - 1815, 1919, 1951 (Hardcover)
Series: Europe's Legacy in the Modern World
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Europe's Utopias of Peace explores attempts to create a lasting
European peace in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and the two
world wars. The book charts the 250 year cycle of violent European
conflicts followed by new utopian formulations for peace. The
utopian illusion was that future was predictable and rules could
prescribe behaviour in conflicts to come. Bo Strath examines the
reiterative bicentenary cycle since 1815, where each new postwar
period built on a design for a project for European unification. He
sets out the key historical events and the continuous struggle with
nationalism, linking them to legal, political and economic thought.
Biographical sketches of the most prominent thinkers and actors
provide the human element to this narrative. Europe's Utopias of
Peace presents a new perspective on the ideological, legal,
economic and intellectual conditions that shaped Europe since the
19th century and presents this in a global context. It challenges
the conventional narrative on Europe's past as a progressive
enlightenment heritage, highlighting the ambiguities of the
legacies that pervade the institutional structures of contemporary
Europe. Its long-term historical perspective will be invaluable for
students of contemporary Europe or modern European history.
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