Cosmopolitanism in Confict: Imperial Encounters from the Seven Years’ War to the Cold War

L. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Academic editor: Д. Г. Гусейнова

Under the general editorship: Д. Г. Гусейнова

Compiler: Д. Г. Гусейнова

This book is the first study to engage with the relationship between cosmopolitan political thought and the history of global conflicts. Accompanied by visual material ranging from critical battle painting to the photographic representation of ruins, it showcases established as well as emerging interdisciplinary scholarship in global political thought and cultural history. Touching on the progressive globalization of conflicts between the eighteenth and the twentieth century, including the War of the Spanish Succession, the Seven Years’ War, the Napoleonic wars, the two World Wars, as well as seemingly ‘internal’ civil wars in eastern Europe’s imperial frontiers, it shows how these conflicts produced new zones of cultural contact. The authors build on a rich foundation of unpublished sources drawn from public institutions as well as private archives, allowing them to shed new light on the British, Russian, German, Ottoman, American, and transnational history of international thought and political engagement.

Chapters

After the Napoleonic Wars: Reading 'Perpetual Peace' in the Russian Empire

Maria Mayofis, , in: Cosmopolitanism in Confict: Imperial Encounters from the Seven Years’ War to the Cold War.: L.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Ch. 4 P. 85–110.

Russia’s ambitions under Emperor Alexander I to establish a new political order in Europe in 1813–1815 have been widely discussed by historians. Assessments of this new order itself, as it was finally implemented in the wake of the Congress of Vienna, vary markedly, but it is generally believed that the post-war system was the fruit ...

Added: February 23, 2018

Keywords: Cold War, Immanuel Kant, cosmopolitanism, transnational history