Description
Covering territory from Russia in the east to Germany and Austria in the west, The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700 explores the origins and evolution of modernity in this turbulent region. This book applies fresh critical approaches to major historical controversies and debates, expanding the study of a region that has experienced persistent and profound change and yet has long been dominated by narrowly nationalist interpretations.
Written by an international team of contributors that reflects the increasing globalization and pluralism of East Central European studies, chapters discuss key themes such as economic development, the relationship between religion and ethnicity, the intersection between culture and imperial, national, wartime, and revolutionary political agendas, migration, women’s and gender history, ideologies and political movements, the legacy of communism, and the ways in which various states in East Central Europe deployed and were formed by the politics of memory and commemoration. This book uses new methodologies in order to fundamentally reshape perspectives on the development of East Central Europe over the past three centuries.
Transnational and comparative in approach, this volume presents the latest research on the social, cultural, political and economic history of modern East Central Europe, providing an analytical and comprehensive overview for all students of this region.
Table of Contents
List of maps
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
Irina Livezeanu and Arpad von Klimo
1 – Space: Empires, Nations, Borders
Bernhard Struck and James Koranyi
2 – Rural and Urban Worlds: Between Economic Modernization and Persistent Backwardness
Jacek Kochanowicz and Bogdan Murgescu
3 – Demography and Population Movements
Theodora Dragostinova and David Gerlach
4 – Religion and Ethnicity: Conflicting and Converging Identifications
Joel Brady and Edin Hajdarpasic
5 – The Cultures of East Central Europe: Imperial, National, Revolutionary
Irina Livezeanu, Thomas Ort and Alex Drace-Francis
6 – Women’s and Gender History
Krassimira Daskalova and Susan Zimmerman
7 – Political Ideologies and Political Movements
Ulf Brunnbauer and Paul Hanebrink
8 – Communism and Its Legacy
Malgorzata Fidelis and Irina Gigova
9 – Returning to ‘Europe’ and the Rise of Europragmatism: Party Politics and the European Union since 1989
Reinhard Heinisch
10 – Uses and Abuses of the Past
Patrice Dabrowski and Stefan Troebst
Index
