Author | Meyer, Henry Cord. author |
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Title | Mitteleuropa [electronic resource] : In German Thought and Action 1815-1945 / by Henry Cord Meyer |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1955 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-2469-8 |
Descript | XV, 378 p. online resource |
I. Fiction and Fact: An Introduction -- II. Mid-European Aspects of German Nationalism, 1815-1871 -- Precursors of Mitteleuropa -- The Contest for German Unity in its Mid-European Setting -- The Eclipse of the Grossdeutsch Movement -- III. The Slender Threads -- The Mitteleuropa of Lagarde -- The Hapsburg Dilemma -- The Austrian-Germans Between Sadowa and Sarajevo -- Reich-German Reactions to the Austrian-German Dilemma -- IV. Germany and Middle Europe: The Economic Pattern, 1871-1914 -- Unfulfilled Dreams of Mid-European Economic Integration -- The Pattern of German Investment -- The Expansion of German World Trade -- Waterways and Rails in Middle Europe, and the Movement of German Trade -- V. Mitteleuropa in the Age of William II -- The Wilhelmian Scene -- Naumannโs Pre-war Emphases -- Pre-war Enthusiasm for the Near East: Paul Rohrbach and Ernst Jรคckh -- Pre-war Objectives of German Diplomacy -- Mid-European Themes in the Wilhelmian Era -- VI. The Impact of Blockade -- Pre-war Intimations of Siege -- Initial Reactions to Blockade -- The Siege and the Powers -- The War Aims of the Central Powers -- VII. Mitteleuropa Emerges -- The First Evidences -- How Mitteleuropa Grew -- The Rising Flood -- The Economic Argument -- The Economic Interests -- Cross-Currents and Quandary -- VIII. The Austro-Hungarian Dilemma 174 Austrian-German Plans to Reorganize the Monarchy -- Austro-Hungarian Resistance to Mitteleuropa -- Stalemate and Perplexity -- IX. Friedrich Naumannโs Mitteleuropa -- Naumannโs Argument -- Reactions at Home and Abroad -- Naumann, the Entente, and the German Government -- X. 1916. The Year of Culmination -- The Greater Mid-European Illusion -- The Peak of Mitteleuropa Enthusiasm -- The Pan-Germans vs. Mitteleuropa -- Weltwirtschaft Opposes Mitteleuropa -- Mitteleuropa Refortified -- Geography and History Adjust to Mitteleuropa -- XI. Mitteleuropa in Eclipse -- Intimations of a Totalitarian Future: The Ludendorff Dictatorship -- The German โDiscoveryโ of Russia -- Osteuropa Overshadows Mitteleuropa -- The Weakening of Mitteleuropa -- Mitteleuropa Stillborn -- Implications of the Eclipse -- XII. Retreat and Mutation, 1918-1945 -- The Grossdeutsch Revival -- Grossdeutsch Feeling Gives Way to Gesamtdeutsch Ambition -- The New Economic Mitteleuropa -- Mitteleuropa and Nazi Ideology -- XIII. Conclusion -- XIV. Bibliographical Essay