Gusejnova Dina (ed.) Cosmopolitanism in Conflict: Imperial Encounters from the Seven Years War to the Cold War

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 317 p. — ISBN10: 1349952745; ISBN13: 978-1349952748This 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 The authors build on a rich foundation of unpublished sources drawn from public institutions as well as private archives, allowing them to shed new light on the British, Russian, German, Ottoman, American, and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.Introduction. Dina GusejnovaConflicts as Cosmopolitan MomentsTransnational and Cosmopolitan Aspects of Eighteenth-Century European Wars. Stephen Conway
Kant’s Subaltern Period: The Birth of Cosmopolitanism from the Spirit of Occupation. Alexander Etkind
After the Napoleonic Wars: Reading Perpetual Peace in the Russian Empire. Maria MayofisBetween EmpiresModern Muslim Cosmopolitanism Between the Logics of Race and Empire. Cemil Aydin
Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism in Modern British Political Thought: Continuities and Discontinuities. Georgios Varouxakis
The BBC’s Corporate Cosmopolitanism: The Diasporic Voice Between Empire and Cold War. Marie Gillespie and Eva Nieto McAvoyCosmopolitanisms in the CityBrest-Litovsk as a Site of Historical Disorientation. Dina Gusejnova
The Languages of Caucasian Cosmopolitanism: Twentieth-Century Baku at the Crossroads. Zaur Gasimov
From Kantian Cosmopolitanism to Stalinist Kosmopolitizm: The Making of Kaliningrad. Olga Sezneva
Transnational Emotions in Times of Conflict: An Afterword. Axel Körner