Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.

Dina Gusejnova is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield. Born in Moscow, she has taught at Queen Mary University of London, University College London, the University of Chicago and the University of Cambridge, where she received her Ph.D.

Part I. Celebrity of Decline: 1. Famous deaths: subjects of imperial decline; 2. Shared horizons: the sentimental elite in the Great War; Part II. Power of Prestige: 3. Soft power: pan-Europeanism after the Habsburgs; 4. The German princes: an aristocratic fraction in the democratic age; 5. Crusaders of civility: the legal internationalism of the Baltic Barons; Part III. Phantom Empires: 6. Knights of many faces: the dream of chivalry and its dreamers; 7. Apostles of elegy: Bloomsbury's continental connections; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.