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Author : Paul Beck
Publisher : Writers & Readers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004766852
Traces the history of the region from World War I to the present, and describes influential events, movements, and individuals.
Author : Tomek E. Jankowski
Publisher : New Europe Books
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780985062330
Eastern Europe! is a brief and concise (but informative) introduction to Eastern Europe and its myriad customs and history. When the legendary Romulus killed his brother Remus and founded the city of Rome in 753 BCE, Plovdiv -- today the second-largest city in Bulgaria -- was already thousands of years old. Indeed, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Brussels, Amsterdam are all are mere infants compared to Plovdiv. This is just one of the paradoxes that haunts and defines the New Europe, that part of Europe that was freed from Soviet bondage in 1989 which is at once both much older than the modern Atlantic-facing power centers of Western Europe while also being in some ways much younger than them. Even those knowledgeable about Western Europe often see Eastern Europe as terra incognita, with a sign on the border declaring "Here be monsters." This book is a gateway to understanding both what unites and separates Eastern Europeans from their Western brethren, and how this vital region has been shaped by, but has also left its mark on, Western Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Ideal for students, businesspeople, and those who simply want to know more about where Grandma or Grandpa came from, Eastern Europe! is a user-friendly guide to a region that is all too often mischaracterized as remote, insular, and superstitious. Illustrations throughout include: 40 photos, 40 maps and 40 figures (tables, charts, etc.) From the Trade Paperback edition.
Author : Robert Bideleux,Ian Jeffries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134719846
A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change is a wide-ranging single volume history of the "lands between", the lands which have lain between Germany, Italy, and the Tsarist and Soviet empires. Bideleux and Jeffries examine the problems that have bedevilled this troubled region during its imperial past, the interwar period, under fascism, under communism, and since 1989. While mainly focusing on the modern era and on the effects of ethnic nationalism, fascism and communism, the book also offers original, striking and revisionist coverage of: * ancient and medieval times * the Hussite Revolution, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation * the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Hapsburg Empire * the rise and decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * the impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours * rival concepts of "Central" and "Eastern" Europe * the 1920s land reforms and the 1930s Depression. Providing a thematic historical survey and analysis of the formative processes of change which have played the paramount roles in shaping the development of the region, A History of Eastern Europe itself will play a paramount role in the studies of European historians.
Author : Captivating History
Publisher : Captivating History
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 163716503X
The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and fall of states and empires.
Author : Robert Bideleux,Ian Jeffries
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : 9780415161121
While mainly focusing on the modern era - the effects of ethnic nationalism, fascism and communism - this history also offers revisionist coverage of topics such as the Hussite Revolution, and the rise and decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Author : Tomek Jankowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1644697602
The long-awaited new edition of the acclaimed, first-ever comprehensive, informative, and entertaining history of Eastern Europe in English―thoroughly updated, with a major new section on the postcommunist era and a foreword by BBC Central Europe Correspondent Nick Thorpe. When the legendary Romulus killed his brother Remus and founded the city of Rome in 753 BCE, Plovdiv--today the second-largest city in Bulgaria--was thousands of years old. Indeed, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Brussels, Amsterdam are all are mere infants compared to Plovdiv. This is just one of the paradoxes that haunts and defines the New Europe, that part of Europe that was freed from Soviet bondage in 1989, and which is at once both much older than the modern Atlantic-facing power centers of Western Europe while also being much younger than them. Eastern Europe! is a brief and concise (but informative) introduction to Eastern Europe and its myriad customs and history. Even those knowledgeable about Western Europe often see Eastern Europe as terra incognito, with a sign on the border declaring "Here be monsters." Tomek Jankowski's book is a gateway to understanding both what unites and separates Eastern Europeans from their Western brethren, and how this vital region has been shaped by but has also left its mark on Western Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. It is a reader-friendly guide to a region that is all too often mischaracterized as remote, insular, and superstitious. The book comprises three parts, The first sums up modern linguistic, geographic, and religious contours of Eastern Europe, while the second, main part delves into the region's history, from the earliest origins of Europe up to the end of the Cold War, as well as--new to the 2nd edition--a section on the post-Cold War period. Closing the book is a section that makes sense of geographical name references -- many cities, rivers, or regions have different names -- and also includes an Eastern Europe by Numbers feature that provides charts describing the populations, politics, and economies of the region today. Throughout are boxed-off anecdotes (Useless Trivia) describing fascinating aspects of Eastern European history or culture.
Author : Ian D. Armour
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849666619
A History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918: Empires, Nations and Modernisation provides a comprehensive, authoritative account of the region during a troubled period that finished with the First World War. Ian Armour focuses on the three major themes that have defined Eastern Europe in the modern period - empire, nationhood and modernisation - whilst chronologically tracing the emergence of Eastern Europe as a distinct concept and place. Detailed coverage is given to the Habsburg, Ottoman, German and Russian Empires that struggled for dominance during this time. In this exciting new edition, Ian Armour incorporates findings from new research into the nature and origins of nationalism and the attempts of supranational states to generate dynastic loyalties as well as concepts of empire. Armour's insightful guide to early Eastern Europe considers the important figures and governments, analyses the significant events and discusses the socio-economic and cultural developments that are crucial to a rounded understanding of the region in that era. Features of this new edition include: * A fully updated and enlarged bibliography and notes * Eight useful maps * Updated content throughout the text A History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918 is the ideal textbook for students studying Eastern European history.
Author : R. J. Crampton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134712229
Covering all key Eastern European states and their history right up to the collapse of communism, this second edition of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century – And After is a comprehensive political history of Eastern Europe taking in the whole of the century and the geographical area. Focusing on the attempt to create and maintain a functioning democracy, this new edition now: examines events in Bosnia and Herzegovina includes a new consideration of the evolution of the region since the revolutions of 1989–91 surveys the development of a market economy analyzes the realignment of Eastern Europe towards the West details the emergence of organized crime discusses each state individually includes an up-to-date bibliography. Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century – And After provides an accessible introduction to this key area which is invaluable to students of modern and political history.
Author : Joseph Held
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0231076975
This illustrated historical reference work provides an interpretive overview of each of the countries of Eastern Europe, focusing particularly on political developments and including references to significant social, cultural and economic events.
Author : James R. Payton Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666704778
The fascinating history of Eastern Europe includes highs of soaring cultural achievement and lows of almost unimaginable repression. But we in the West don't know much about Eastern Europe or its history--this book helps us see why. We got interested when the region became a threat during the Cold War, but what we learned focused on the Communist period after World War II--not Eastern Europe itself or its deep history, a history that continues to live in the hearts of its peoples. James Payton offers an accessible treatment of the history of the region, an opportunity to learn about Eastern Europeans as they are. He overviews that story from pre-history to the present, examining eleven turning points that profoundly shaped Eastern European history. His treatment considers the backgrounds to the turning points, the events, and the long-lasting impacts they had for the various Eastern European nations. This helps us understand how Eastern Europeans themselves see their history--the "long haul" over the centuries, with the influence and impact of events of the sometimes-distant past shaping how they see themselves, their neighbors, and their place in the world.
Author : D. Crowe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349606719
David Crowe draws from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources to explore the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages until the present.
Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028932062
"Indispensable for anyone who wants to seriously come to grips with the experience of Eastern Europe."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Author : Gregory Curtis Ference
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032231535
A reference work covering twentieth-century events in Eastern Europe. Includes a comprehensive timeline and biographical sketches of prominent individuals in each nation.
Author : Włodzimierz Borodziej,Sabina Ferhadbegović,Joachim von Puttkamer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000049428
Statehood examines the extending lines of development of nation-state systems in Eastern Europe, in particular considering why certain tendencies in state development found a different expression in this region compared to other parts of the continent. This volume discusses the differences between the social developments, political decisions, and historical experience that have influenced processes of state-building, with a focus on the structural problems of the region and the different paths taken to overcome them. The book addresses processes of building social orders and examines the contribution of state institutions to social and cultural integration and disintegration. It analyses institutional and personnel continuities that have outlasted the great political changes of the twentieth century and addresses the expansion of state activity in shaping property relations in agriculture and industry as well as in social security and family politics. Taking a comparative approach based on experiential history, allowing individual experience to be detached from specific national references, the volume delineates a transnational comparison of problems shared within the region as they have been passed down through history, providing definition to the specificity of Eastern Europe and situating the historical experience of the region within a pan-European context. The second in a four-volume set on Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, it is the go-to resource for those interested in statehood and state-building in this complex region.
Author : Gregory C. Ference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788156063
Provides the reader with a concise look at the major political, economic, and cultural events that have shaped the history of Eastern Europe from the turn of the century to the end of 1993. Covers: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, as well as the former countries of Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Yugoslavia. A chapter on the former Soviet Union is also included. Each chapter begins with a overview of the history of the country and peoples prior to the 20th cent. This is followed by an annual chronological format of significant developments that is further broken down into a day-by-day format. Black and white photos.