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Author Schmale, Wolfgang

Title For a Democratic ""United States of Europe"" (1918-1951) : Freemasons - Human Rights Leagues - Winston S. Churchill - Individual Citizens
Published Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (198 pages)
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; I. Introduction; The Churchill Moment; Social History of the Idea of European Unity; European Civil Society and the Idea of European Unity; Definition of "Civil Society"; The French Prism; Resistance Movements; Civil Society and Ordinary Citizens; II. Freemasons and the Idea of Europe in the 1920s and 1930s; Introduction; Strengths and Weaknesses of Existing Research on Masonry; Aspects of Masonic History; Masonic "United States of Europe"; The Setting of the Case Study; The Masonic Idea of Europe and Colonialism
The League of Nations and United States of EuropeFranco-German Reconciliation and Europe; The Convention of 1933 -- "Statut de l'Europe de demain"; III. Human Rights Leagues and the Idea of Europe During the Interwar Period; Introduction: French Leadership; Citizens for Human Rights and "Europe vécue"; "Les Cahiers des Droits de l'Homme" (1920-1940); Human Rights Leagues and the Idea of a United States of Europe; The Concept of Civilization, Colonialism and Europe -- Conclusion; IV. "My Dear Mr. Churchill ... "; Introduction; General Characterization of the Letters to Winston Churchill
Overview of Contents Using Selected LettersLetters from Germany; Letters from France; Letters from the USA; Letters from Other Countries; Priorities; Europe as a Civilization; Europe as the Occident -- "Saviour of the Occident"; Europe -- Wiping the Slate Clean after the Vitiation; A Europe of Democracy and Human Rights?; Conclusion; Epilogue; Summaries; Deutsch; English; Français; Documentation; Primary Sources: Archives; A; Archives des collectivités; Ligue des droits de l'homme (France) -- Archives rapatriées de Moscou, relations avec les Ligues étrangères; Various fonds
Les Cahiers des droits de l'homme (print, copy of BDIC)B; ME -- Mouvement Européen; C; GLDF Archives: Archives russes; GLDF Archives; GLDF Bibliothèque; Other Primary Sources; Secondary Literature; Index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045714
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3515124659
9783515124652