BETWEEN INTEGRATION AND IMPERIALISM. '[MITTELEUROPA' IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF GERMAN POLICY IN THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY (Miedzy integracja a imperializmem. Mitteleuropa w perspektywie niemieckiej polityki XIX i poczatków XX wieku)

• Authors: Gorska Urszula
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

A presentation of the history of the term Mitteleuropa and the political sources of its origin. Initially, this was a political construction known in diplomacy from the Congress of Vienna, and revived and popularised by Friedrich Naumann in his book 'Mitteleuropa' from 1915. During the First World War the term was adapted by the political elites of the Second Empire and defined as the war-colonial target of the Reich, to comprise a plan for a new European order after the eventual victory of the Central Powers. The idea of Mitteleuropa was, therefore, primarily a political objective and not a definition-oriented or geographic goal. The first of the two prime traditions of conceiving Central Europe originates from the multinational Habsburg Monarchy, while the second is associated with the imperialistic ambition of the German Reich expanded in the Naumann publication. Both traditions were derived from German messianism, claiming that only Germany constitutes a progressive and order-introducing element in the Central European 'chaos' of nations, a feature symbolically evidenced by 'central' location on the Continent.

Keywords

EN

MITTELEUROPA

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Dzieje Najnowsze
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 3-26
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gorska Urszula

• Urszula Gorska, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Polonistyki, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

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CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA063911