Volume 19, Issue 6/7, 2009
Spain, Poland and Europe
Maciej Krasuski
Pages 127-138
DOI: 10.5840/du2009196/739
The European Imperial Idea
Neither the origin, nor the meaning of the notion of “empire” are obvious for historians. The same obscurity affects the notion of “Europe”. A presentation of different types of European empires and of their legitimacy enable a synthetic expression of ideological identity of Europe. The evolution and the main versions of both notions are reviewed.