Cosmopolitanism in Conflict

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   • Dina Gusejnova

   Pages 1-26

3. Conflicts as Cosmopolitan Moments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Transnational and Cosmopolitan Aspects of Eighteenth-Century European Wars

      • Stephen Conway

      Pages 29-54

   3. Kant’s Subaltern Period: The Birth of Cosmopolitanism from the Spirit of Occupation

      • Alexander Etkind

      Pages 55-83

   4. After the Napoleonic Wars: Reading Perpetual Peace in the Russian Empire

      • Maria Mayofis

      Pages 85-110

4. Between Empires

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Modern Muslim Cosmopolitanism Between the Logics of Race and Empire

      • Cemil Aydin

      Pages 113-145

   3. Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism in Modern British Political Thought: Continuities and Discontinuities

      • Georgios Varouxakis

      Pages 147-178

   4. The BBC’s Corporate Cosmopolitanism: The Diasporic Voice Between Empire and Cold War

      • Marie Gillespie, Eva Nieto McAvoy

      Pages 179-209

5. Cosmopolitanisms in the City

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Brest-Litovsk as a Site of Historical Disorientation

      • Dina Gusejnova

      Pages 213-246

   3. The Languages of Caucasian Cosmopolitanism: Twentieth-Century Baku at the Crossroads

      • Zaur Gasimov

      Pages 247-269

   4. From Kantian Cosmopolitanism to Stalinist Kosmopolitizm: The Making of Kaliningrad

      • Olga Sezneva

      Pages 271-294

   5. Transnational Emotions in Times of Conflict: An Afterword

      • Axel Körner

      Pages 295-301

6. Back Matter

   Pages 303-317

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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.

• Seven Years War
• First World War
• Second World War
• Political Thought
• Napoleonic Wars
• War of Spanish Succession
• Cultural History
• Visual Sources
• Eighteenth Century
• Nineteenth Century
• Twentieth Century
• Ottoman

• University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  Dina Gusejnova

Dina Gusejnova is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge, UK, Chicago, USA, University College London, UK and Queen Mary University, UK. Gusejnova is the author of European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-57 (2016).

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