{"product_id":"the-routledge-history-of-east-central-europe-since-1700-9780415584333","title":"The Routledge History of East Central Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Routledge History of East Central Europe\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive, yet concise introduction to the history and historiography of the region, while also featuring some of the latest research and methodological innovation in the field. The book brings together an excellent team of historians from Europe and North America, representing some of the best recent work on the political, economic, gender, and cultural history of East Central Europe. Collectively, the diverse thematic chapters deliver a compelling narrative of three centuries of turbulent history in a region that was the epicenter of conflict between imperial and national forms of identification and governance. As the authors demonstrate through a full range of conceptual lenses, empire and nation themselves were historical artifacts, both shaped by and actively shaping economic, gender, political, demographic, and cultural history.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Eagle Glassheim\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of British Columbia, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This impressive survey of the territory between German lands and those of Russia, including the Balkans, treats history and historiography. It is fully abreast of current scholarship and methodology, clearly written by a first-rate international team of contributors whose own research is evident, shows the region in all its complexities, and is well edited by Livezeanu (Univ. of Pittsburgh) and von Klimó (Catholic Univ.).\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eP. W. Knoll\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Southern California\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The volume manages to convey and reflect on several of the dominant historiographic trends and key research findings in the English-language scholarship of recent decades, and it presents a rich, thoughtful, and accessible new history of a highly complex region over three centuries.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eFerenc Laczó\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaastricht University in Hungarian Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In terms of general conclusions, the volume has achieved its objective of becoming a reference work. It gives due weight to recent historiographical developments, as additionally reflected in the chapter endnotes and suggestions for further reading. Moreover, the authors take the welcome liberty of providing thought-provoking vignettes, which should be stimulating for established practitioners and especially graduate students. All told, this would be more than a worthwhile purchase for a research library...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eMatei Costinescu\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eH-Net\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Scholars of the field and their graduate students will want this book on their office shelves. It is a pleasure to read a synopsis of the region that tries to de-essentialize east central Europe by appropriately highlighting constant change and development.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eAndrea Orzoff\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSlavic Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Routledge History of East Central Europe\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive, yet concise introduction to the history and historiography of the region, while also featuring some of the latest research and methodological innovation in the field. The book brings together an excellent team of historians from Europe and North America, representing some of the best recent work on the political, economic, gender, and cultural history of East Central Europe. Collectively, the diverse thematic chapters deliver a compelling narrative of three centuries of turbulent history in a region that was the epicenter of conflict between imperial and national forms of identification and governance. As the authors demonstrate through a full range of conceptual lenses, empire and nation themselves were historical artifacts, both shaped by and actively shaping economic, gender, political, demographic, and cultural history.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEagle Glassheim, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of British Columbia, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of maps\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of figures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of tables\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of contributors\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrina Livezeanu and Arpad von Klimo \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 – Space: Empires, Nations, Borders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernhard Struck and James Koranyi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 – Rural and Urban Worlds: Between Economic Modernization and Persistent Backwardness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacek Kochanowicz and Bogdan Murgescu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 – Demography and Population Movements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheodora Dragostinova and David Gerlach\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 – Religion and Ethnicity: Conflicting and Converging Identifications\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoel Brady and Edin Hajdarpasic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 – The Cultures of East Central Europe: Imperial, National, Revolutionary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrina Livezeanu, Thomas Ort and Alex Drace-Francis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 – Women’s and Gender History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKrassimira Daskalova and Susan Zimmerman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 – Political Ideologies and Political Movements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUlf Brunnbauer and Paul Hanebrink\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 – Communism and Its Legacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalgorzata Fidelis and Irina Gigova\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 – Returning to ‘Europe’ and the Rise of Europragmatism: Party Politics and the European Union since 1989\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReinhard Heinisch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 – Uses and Abuses of the Past\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrice Dabrowski and Stefan Troebst\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577326604631,"sku":"9780415584333","price":209.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415584333.jpg?v=1746094901","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-routledge-history-of-east-central-europe-since-1700-9780415584333","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}