Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fear, interest and honor
- 3 The spirit and its expression
- 4 The ancient world
- 5 Medieval Europe
- 6 From Sun King to Revolution
- 7 Imperialism and World War I
- 8 World War II
- 9 Hitler to Bush and beyond
- 10 General findings and conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Imperialism and World War I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fear, interest and honor
- 3 The spirit and its expression
- 4 The ancient world
- 5 Medieval Europe
- 6 From Sun King to Revolution
- 7 Imperialism and World War I
- 8 World War II
- 9 Hitler to Bush and beyond
- 10 General findings and conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then I felt like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific – and his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise –
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
John KeatsTraditional Europe is often considered to end with the French Revolution. Many historians treat it as a transformative event that separates the old regime from republicanism and traditionalism from modernity. The Revolution is undeniably an important historical marker, although many of the historians who use it as such wisely hedge their claims with various caveats. They recognize that important developments we associate with modernity often had their origins in pre-revolutionary Europe, and that many characteristic practices of the old regime survived the Revolution, some of them down to our day, albeit in muted or altered form. The politics and international relations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is best understood in terms of the uneasy coexistence and tensions between values and practices of pre-revolutionary Europe with those that emerged with modernity. These centuries represent a period of transition, and one that is not yet complete despite claims by some that we have already entered a postindustrial, postmodernist age.
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- A Cultural Theory of International Relations , pp. 305 - 370Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008