{"product_id":"the-world-beyond-the-west-perspectives-from-eastern-europe-9781800733527","title":"The World beyond the West: Perspectives from","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tNo matter how one defines its extent and borders, Eastern Europe has long been understood as a liminal space, one whose undeniable cultural and historical continuities with Western Europe have been belied by its status as an “Other” in the Western imagination. Across illuminating and provocative case studies, \u003cem\u003eThe World beyond the West\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the region’s ambiguous relationship to historical processes of colonialism and Orientalism. In exploring encounters with distant lands through politics, travel, migration, and exchange, it places Eastern Europe at the heart of its analysis while decentering the most familiar narratives and recasting the history of the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This collection is a timely addition to emerging scholarship on Eastern European participation in the Othering and Orientalizing of the non-European world throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Epp Annus\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ohio State University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eThe World Beyond the West \u003cem\u003emakes valuable contributions to the fast-growing international interest in and research on Eastern Europe and its global and transregional contexts.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Frank Hadler\u003c\/strong\u003e, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Affirming and Contesting the Empire\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Constructing \u003cem\u003eAziatchina\u003c\/em\u003e: An Apology for Perceived Own “Emptiness” in Russian National and Imperial Discourses, 1828-1918\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBatir Xasanov\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Involuntary Orientalists: Polish Exiles and Adventurers as Observers of the Kazakh Steppe and the Caucasus\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCurtis G. Murphy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e “These Sufferers, Constantly Lamenting Their Bitter Fate”: The Image of the Mountain Jews in the Writings of Joseph Judah Chorny and Ilya Anisimov\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMateusz Majman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Creating the Other: Travel and Migration\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The East-West Dichotomy Disrupted: Triangulation and Reflections on the Imperial View in Hungarian Perceptions of North America\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBalázs Venkovits\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Negogiating Empires: Eastern European Jewish Responses to the Expulsion of Jews from Palestine to Egypt in 1914–1915\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJonathan Hirsch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e From Exotic Adventure to Victimization to Estrangement: Imagining “Africa” through the Eyes of Czechoslovak Travel Writers (1950s–1980s)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBarbora Buzássyová\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Representations and Fantasies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. Polish Maritime and River\/Colonial League’s Depictions of South America\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarta Grzechnik\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Between Postimperial Expansion and Promethean Mission: Africa and Africans in Interwar Polish Colonial Discourse\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePiotr Puchalski\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Eastern Promises: Romanian Responses to the War in Vietnam\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJill Massino\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMagdalena Kozłowska and Mariusz Kałczewiak\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042744336727,"sku":"9781800733527","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800733527.jpg?v=1750955437","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-world-beyond-the-west-perspectives-from-eastern-europe-9781800733527","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}