Central Europe
Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 20 December 2001
- ISBN 9780195148251
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages364 pages
- Size 234x156x17 mm
- Weight 524 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 halftones & 12 maps 0
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Short description:
Central Europe provides a broad comparative overview of the events, national traditions, conflicts, and patterns of development in Central Europe, covering a region that encompasses contemporary Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia. This historical survey abandons the Cold War convention of defining Central Europe in the bipolar terms of East and West, emphasizing instead the underlying continuities in the region's history.
It opens with the initial conversion of the pagan peoples of the region to Christianity before 1000 A.D. and ends with the revolutions of 1989 and the problems of post-Communist states today. Central Europe, now in its second editon, contains a new epilogue -- updated to cover events since 1995 -- and several
updated maps. Each chapter is organized around issues or events that are important for developing an understanding of the region's internal dynamics. The book illuminates the competing religious, cultural, economic, national, and ideological interests that have driven the history of Central Europe, allowing readers to appreciate how Central Europeans view their histories, themselves, and each other.
Long description:
This historical survey of Central Europe covers a region that encompasses contemporary Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia. Now in its second edition, Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends contains a new epilogue-updated to cover events since 1995-and several redesigned or updated maps. Each chapter is thematically organized around issues or events that are important in helping students develop an understanding of the region's
internal dynamics. Johnson illuminates the competing religious, cultural, economic, national, and ideological interests that have driven the history of Central Europe. Thorough, objective, and focused, Johnson's work stands out as both a useful core text covering an area of growing interest and a
brilliant account of a region that is only just beginning to receive the attention it deserves.
He manages to make an enormous expanse of history accessible to the average reader in very few pages. There are not many books that set the historical context for this part of the world so well.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Where is Central Europe?
Central Europe and the Roman Christian West, 400-1000
Feudal Foundations, 1000-1350
The Great Late Medieval Kingdoms
The Bulwarks of Christendom
The Counter Reformation: The Roman Catholic Church and the Habsburg Dynasty, 1550-1700
Absolutism as Enlightenment, 1700-1790
Nations without States, States without Nations, 1790-1848
The Demise of Imperial Austria and the Rise of Imperial Germany, 1848-1890
World War I and National Self-Determination, 1914-1922
Spheres of Influence I, Germany and the Soviet Union
Spheres of Influence II, East and West or "Yalta Europe"
The Failure of Eastern Europe, 1956-1989
Epilogue: Postrevolutionary Paradoxes: Central Europe since 1989
Notes
Index
